Even though Intel is probably the industry's biggest proponent of multi-core computing and threaded programming, it today announced a single thread acceleration technology at IDF Beijing. Mobility chief Mooly Eden revealed a type of single-core overclocking built in to its upcoming Santa Rosa platform. It seems like a tacit admission from Intel that multi-threaded apps haven't caught up with the availability of multi-core CPUs.
Intel also foreshadowed a major announcement tomorrow around Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- the replacement for BIOS that has so far only been used in Intel Macs. "We have been working with Microsoft," Intel hinted.
News source: APCMag.com
Intel also foreshadowed a major announcement tomorrow around Universal Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) -- the replacement for BIOS that has so far only been used in Intel Macs. "We have been working with Microsoft," Intel hinted.
News source: APCMag.com
Or, just maybe, while Intel was hardworking at engineering better CPUs when there was an actual competition, AMD should have done the same instead of spending their time bad mouthing Intel and crying wolf about monopolies.
I don't want a junky in my system.
More gimmicks.
AMD thing sounded like a system for more than one core to work together efficiently processing single threaded code, so the system is accessed as 1 CPU, but all the cores do the work.
From the article this new Intel tech is effectively powering down the other cores, to give a power/speed boost to just one to accelerate it's function.
I hope someone with a better memory of the AMD article can explain things in more detail, but I think that's the gist of it. if this is correct then the AMD system, if they can get it to work efficiently and seamlessly would be a more powerful and useful solution.
AMD thing sounded like a system for more than one core to work together efficiently processing single threaded code, so the system is accessed as 1 CPU, but all the cores do the work.
From the article this new Intel tech is effectively powering down the other cores, to give a power/speed boost to just one to accelerate it's function.
I hope someone with a better memory of the AMD article can explain things in more detail, but I think that's the gist of it. if this is correct then the AMD system, if they can get it to work efficiently and seamlessly would be a more powerful and useful solution.
Well it depends how much of a speed boost does the core in the intel version get?
Because it's from INTEL
Most people who are basing INTEL or MICROSOFT are actually using an INTEL with Windows.
But yeah, Intel and Microsoft teaming up doesn't sound good for the fate of others...
Sit back I guess.
I've had an Insyde EFI BIOS in my laptop since 2003...
I've had an Insyde EFI BIOS in my laptop since 2003...
I highly doubt that
On some PC's in my office, BIOS takes longer to load than OS, it's ridiculous.
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