Intel's latest announcement - any merit?

cdhostage

<a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23012.html"; target="_blank">http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/3/23012.html</a>;





Sounds like a pretty quick jump up to me. Give 'em 3 years and a month and expect processors running at 10x the clockspeed of today's? I thought Intel was headed back down in sheer clockspeed stupidity...



The "depleted substrate transistor" looks somewhat interesting, however.

johnsonfromwisconsin

[quote]I thought Intel was headed back down in sheer clockspeed stupidity...

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How is creating a scalable design and implementing cutting edge manufacturing processes, "Stupidity"?

marcuk

PRESS RELEASE - Intel today announced a 25GHZ Pentium 7. Initial benchmarks show that the real world performance is about the same as a 1GHZ P3, and testers say the new chip won't be any good until it reaches 50GHZ and say to wait for the die-shrink in the next revision.

junkyard dawg

Meanwhile, Motorola hopes to push the G5 up to 2 GHz by 2005, after stagnating at 1500 MHz for 18 months.

cdhostage

[quote]Originally posted by Junkyard Dawg:

<strong>Meanwhile, Motorola hopes to push the G5 up to 2 GHz by 2005, after stagnating at 1500 MHz for 18 months.</strong><hr></blockquote>



Yeah. Stangating at 1500 rather than 500 would be nice.

capnpyro

that'd be news if IBM and Motorola didn't already announce something just like that about 2 months ago (promising 20ghz RSN). gallium arsonide? something like that.

caler

Meh. Talk the talk, walk the walk...

powerdoc

[quote]Originally posted by JFW:

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How is creating a scalable design and implementing cutting edge manufacturing processes, "Stupidity"?



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certainly less stupid than the 7400 design stuck for ever at 500 mhz