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on Tuesday April 17, @05:15PM
Most of this week's big stories about Intel are coming out of the Beijing Intel Development Forum. And there's a lot of them, too.
First, forget Dual Core. Or even Quad Core. Here's a PC Pro story headlined Intel finally demos 80-core pocessor. There has been talk about this ultra-mighy-processor in the past, but this is its first public unveiling. No, it won't run Windows (or any known desktop Linux distro), but still: 6 GHz, 2 teraflop performance. That'd be nice to have around the shop purely for bragging rights, wouldn't it? Surely we can come up with *some* kind of "practical" use for the thing that'll get our bosses to spring for one, right? Worth a try....
First, forget Dual Core. Or even Quad Core. Here's a PC Pro story headlined Intel finally demos 80-core pocessor. There has been talk about this ultra-mighy-processor in the past, but this is its first public unveiling. No, it won't run Windows (or any known desktop Linux distro), but still: 6 GHz, 2 teraflop performance. That'd be nice to have around the shop purely for bragging rights, wouldn't it? Surely we can come up with *some* kind of "practical" use for the thing that'll get our bosses to spring for one, right? Worth a try....
More likely to actually fall into our hands in the near future -- and high on our "Oooh! I want one!" list -- is Intel's new Linux-powered mini-tablet, AKA Mobile Internet Device or simply MID. We first learned about this from a site called Slashdot, but other discussions and stories about it are all over the Internet. Even better, one of Intel's own bloggers who was there wrote about the demo firsthand.
Even our humble desktop is getting some Intel-related press play -- and for a change we're talking about looks, not the mobo or uP (although Core microarchitecture *is* at work inside the box), specifically Intel's Million-Dollar PC Design Challenge. The winner is.... (click here to find out).
There was also an announcement about system-on-a-chip, which may finally be moving from pipe dream to reality according to Seeking Alpha. Imagine the design possibilities...
If you're an engineering student in the People's Republic of China, you'll be happy to learn that Intel is now working with 37 Chinese universities to help train students in multi-core development. Even better: a $6500 Multi-Core programming design contest award is up for grabs. We'd love to see a Chinese Slashdot reader win it!
For more (LOTS more!) about what's going on at the Beijing Intel Development Forum, HEXUS.net has a whole section devoted to it. It's well worth a look if you're interested in following the latest Intel announcements and product launches.
Meanwhile, Intel engineers are still answering questions about Core Microarchitecture. Please join the discussion. It's gotten pretty interesting -- at least to our admittedly biased eyes.
Even our humble desktop is getting some Intel-related press play -- and for a change we're talking about looks, not the mobo or uP (although Core microarchitecture *is* at work inside the box), specifically Intel's Million-Dollar PC Design Challenge. The winner is.... (click here to find out).
There was also an announcement about system-on-a-chip, which may finally be moving from pipe dream to reality according to Seeking Alpha. Imagine the design possibilities...
If you're an engineering student in the People's Republic of China, you'll be happy to learn that Intel is now working with 37 Chinese universities to help train students in multi-core development. Even better: a $6500 Multi-Core programming design contest award is up for grabs. We'd love to see a Chinese Slashdot reader win it!
For more (LOTS more!) about what's going on at the Beijing Intel Development Forum, HEXUS.net has a whole section devoted to it. It's well worth a look if you're interested in following the latest Intel announcements and product launches.
Meanwhile, Intel engineers are still answering questions about Core Microarchitecture. Please join the discussion. It's gotten pretty interesting -- at least to our admittedly biased eyes.
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For the next 2 weeks Benson, Brett and Jeff will be on-line to discuss the
Core microarchitecture. As you all know, our latest dual and quad core
microprocessors are based on the Core microarchitecture and are a vast
improvement over the previous generation of Netburst designs. Brett, Jeff
and I have spent the previous 8+ years in Intel's Desktop Microprocessor
division working with customers and Intel's design team to define
processor features, specifications and board designs. We are looking
forward to discussing a wide range of hardware features here; everything
from low power states for Energy Star, maximum and typical power
dissipation levels, cache designs, temperature measurement and thermal
monitoring, dual and quad core performance, front side bus vs. integrated
memory controller, and pipelines to name a few. You may have also read
some of the recent articles about our upcoming processors built on the 45
nanometer process. We can answer questions on those products too. (If you
happen to be in Beijing, China next week you can attend IDF and ask one of
our Principal Engineers all about the 45nm Core 2 processors).
Please keep in mind that we are hardware experts, not software, so questions on virtualization, security and multi-threading optimizations are outside of our realm.
The three of us are located in Oregon, on the West coast of the USA, and will be responding to your questions and comments on a daily basis.If for some reason you have no questions for us, I'd be interested in your response to a couple of my own:
- What is more important, a processor having particular architecture features or a processor that has the best performance?
- How do you use information displayed by some hardware monitoring programs such as processor temperatures or voltages?
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An anonymous reader writes "Intel is set to launch an ultra-mobile PC dubbed Mobile Internet Device or MID which will run on Linux. The PDA-sized devices will target 'consumers and prosumers' instead of mobile professionals. From the story: 'MID tablets will run a simplified finger-friendly user interface optimized for the small screens, based on the Gnome desktop but with an Intel-developed master user interface layer to serve as an equivalent to the desktop. Developers will next month see the first MID-specific OS -- a tweak of China's RedFlag Linux known as RedFlag MIDINUX -- while the IDF schedule itself includes a stream of ultra mobile sessions including one on Designing for Linux-based mobile Internet devices.'"
