Intel Shows 1.5Ghz

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#38, I was reading the article on AnandTech about the chip and this is what they said:

\"One of the biggest features of the Willamette is its ability to run the Integer ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) at twice the clock speed of the CPU. This means that on a 1.5GHz Willamette, the Integer ALU is actually running at 3.0GHz. For games this wonÂ’t increase performance by a large amount due to their largely floating point oriented performance dependency however in business applications and other applications that are primarily integer performance dependent the Willamette will truly excel. \"

Be interesting to see which interpretation is the correct one. I\'ll wait for the Ars Technica guys to dissect the architecture of Willamette before I consider this split clock an advantage. It could just be that integer operations take twice as many clocks as logical operation to function on a Willamette.

THE REGISTER:

Dr Yu refused to say how much on-die cache was on the processor he introduced today, would not give a delivery date for the product and when we asked him about the die size and how many additional transistors were on the Willamette, he said the die size was \"slightly bigger\" than the Coppermine.

However, he did say it was unlikely that when Willamette launches on the 1st October or thereabouts, it would reach such 1.5GHz speeds. He said: \"It\'s unlikely it will launch at that speed. This is a very first raw look at the silicon.\"

http://www.the-man.de

#35, And you think that neither Intel or AMD will develop lower power versions of their advanced cores to compete?

#33: Transmeta has made it clear they are competing for the portable market, not the power-user market. I\'m sure they realize they can\'t keep up with Intel and AMD demoing pieces over 1 Ghz.

Ah yup, #32, hence the sarcasm tags. The point is, that I don\'t care about what generation a chip is. The question is what is available now and how does it perform in both speed and price compared to the other.

Someday, Transmeta will have a first generation chip that will be competing with both AMD and Intel. Is #29 going to make excuses for them because they only have a first generation core that is competing against 7th or 8th generation cores from Intel or AMD?

Heheh.

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#29, you mean the PIII really ISN\'T a new generation of Intel hardware? But, but... Pentium was the 586... the PII the 6th generation.... Shouldn\'t the PIII be the 7th?
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So, because AMD actually innovated you are forcing them to an arbitrary standard in a feeble attempt to blunt the fact that they DO have a processor that kicks the crap out of Intel\'s current best of line?

Yeah, right.

#29,
The fact that Intel tried to use Rambus exclusively on its Camio chipset
in order to reap the kickbacks....errrrrr... royalties is exacly why Intel
is now fucked. They got greedy and tried to corner a market to make
more cash. Now they are reaping what they sowed.

It is free enterprise and they (Intel) thought that AMD would always
have an inferior product. Guess what, they were very wrong, and
Intel will be paying the price in market share and profits for the
rest of time.

btw- When spitfire and mustang from AMD hit, the Williamette will
not look so hot when its priced %40 more. lol

but it is ridiculous & premature to take sides like some are doing right now. I can\'t wait to see both companies 7th gen go against eachother this fall

No its not. Right now AMD has the superior product. Period. Come end of this year/next year intel undoubtedly will.

And if you cant see what most people dont like about intel right now (sueing alternative chipset providers, trumpeting high end cpu\'s but being unable to ship them, i820/rambus fiasco) then you have your eyes closed.

\" The chip went to 1.499 GHz, and then dropped to 1.492 GHz before popping to 1.5 GHz. \"

Can someone tell me what the fuck that means? how does a chip drop to <> and then pop to <>. Do you have to reboot when you pop? what about when you drop. It\'s not a sports car making 1/4 mile runs, it\'s a CPU? if it cant stay at a set speed it\'s useless.

Seems almost like an unstable overclock....

\"Look, Look! We have an chip that we can push to the edges of tolerance and squeek out 1.5Ghz before it melts!\"

Reminds me of a friend who claimed he could overclock his 300A to 500. Stupid thing crashed every five minutes, but there it was running windows...

dude on stomped.com I found a thing about WHY intel hasn\'t met demand. It seems that they aren\'t shipping PIII\'s so that Via won\'t sell chipsets, but they will start shipping them again when they can ramp the BX up to full production again. This all is becasue the new intel chipset bombed up the ass (remember RAMBUS? will anyone remember rambus soon?)
it seems pretty smart. Stop shipping ice cream until your ice cream cone department has their act together. The only problem is that Athlon is a mean ice cream machine that is going to kick intel\'s candy ass :)

If AMD waits until intel releases their 1 ghz P3 (fall) before releasing their own 1.1 ghz athlon, I\'m gonna be awfully grouchy.

I can wait no longer than June. >=[

By the time that Intel actually comes out with produces in quantity the 1.5 GHz chip, AMD will be above 2 GHz! Long live the processor wars!

Big Fuckin\' Whoop.

Intel and AMD are just bangin\' their big hairy man-like chests at each other.

When I see them 1.5 gigglyhertz machines at best buy is when I\'ll have dribbly shorts.

It\'s a player and yes The Evil ownz.

yeah right what I want a 64bit chip on a board with a least a gig a hurts of speed , whats wrong with that ,O and I have to get that game the sims ,sounds cool.

#12 yeah right... AI will be intensely CPU dependant. Ever play the Sims and watch as you have 5 or six sims trying to figure out how to take out the trash and shit and move around other sims... that takes POWER!

#14. no.

does it own?

hey freshview ever play against the Evil ?

demand smemand... Why do people want all these new processors? There ain\'t shit out there that needs much more than a 400-500 mhZ machine. even business apps don\'t run any faster... fucking lemming run this market, oh, and gamers.

next upgrade will be a 64 bit chip no more no less , at least a gighz of speed . And I think that will do me for a good three to four years.

#10

300 fps obviously

EVIL OWNS

I wonder what kind of FPS you would get if you took one of these Intel 1.5gig cpu\'s and combined it with a Bitboys 2.4gig videocard...

Fuck man even I can show 2.77 gHz here in my pocket. pshaw

I saw this on slashdot. The article made no mention of cooling. I\'d like to see kryotech get their hands on one of them 1.1 ghz athlon.

OH BABY...

It\'s so funny to see them like go back and forth. Think god for AMD so that we can have these CPU wars!


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Cant wait that long, so sorry.

Give me my 1.1 Ghz Athlon with on die cache please. Now.