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Intel's Package
by Steve Gibson, Oct 08, 2001 6:07am PDTIntel apparently plans to unveil a new chip packaging design that is a breakthrough which paves the way for CPUs to run at 20GHz in the years to come. Intel is gonna change the world! Hold on to your butt!
Packaging has never been one of the glamorous jobs in the chip industry. "It's been the ignored child in the semiconductor family," said Nathan Brookwood, an analyst at Insight 64. The main function performed by a package is to create electrical connections between the chip and the motherboard.Once whatever it is gets announced, we'll update it here.
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mofo.
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I imagine it will go a bit slower since the cpu demand on office apps isn't rediculous yet, but who knows, Win95 brought on the Pentium age, maybe something else will ring in a new architecture.
Scary to think that we may be less than 5 years away from 33+ghz.
I hope I can still play Doom on it.]s =)
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WE ARE ALL smart enough / tech savvy enough / pessimistic (realistic) / over hyped enough to FINALLY see a post like this from Steve and KNOW]b that intel are "talking shit" and not get all excitied (fuck the internet and the "hyping game")
The intel execs are simply going to say "here's the new packaging idea - we will use this in 2 years time (wheeeeee)!!!!!!!!! (intel exec blows party trumpet) and we will continue to ramp speeds! still incrimentally increase speed ]s slowly even though we can do it now , but rest assured we HAVE broken through the barrier we HAD to break through to develop these cpu's eventually!"
Fucking waste of my time.
Reminds me of the recent post.
"Rambus Inc announces new specs finalised and Pc1066 mhz ram is complete and ready to go!"
2 weeks later
"Samsung inc announce amazing new ram that does 1066mhz - exec's quoted as saying "yeah we rock - i don't know how we keep thinking up these cool innovative ways of increasing technology but somehow we do it, oh this is EXCLUSIVE! we are the first to do it!! cough even though it's a standard everyone will be following within weeks and THEY TOO could have released pr bullshit announcements also"
cough fucking cough - I tire of this shit from PR teams and tech companies.
I like companies like C3D, who are making 140gb -> 1.4tb disks and they are a small upstart company trying to get it "out to the consumer" - no doubt when THEY announce their shit it will be available as soon as development and building is complete.
Paves the way to 20Ghz eh? What the hell does that mean.
I think all chip manufacturers of planing on faster chips in the future :\
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