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A representative from Intel's Corporate Press Relations department clarified the underlying goal of the Pentium 4 with the following:
"We have been working closely with Internet software firms like Macromedia to create new technologies. Their next version of Shockwave will take advantage of powerful floating-point processors by using a frame counter to send more polygons... depending on your frame rate. Gaming and online shopping are both uses for this technology. Also a firm called Cycore has optimized their engine for Pentium 4 processor, mostly using this for online shopping. The Pentium 4 processor tends to do very well on Internet technologies such as Java and XML, as well as new usage models such as folks encoding their videos and posting them on the Net."
Online shopping? You need a 1.5GHz processor with 3.2GB/s of memory bandwidth for online shopping? What does Intel think we are? Stupid?
So I'm supposed to dump my machine so that Shockwave can display more polygons? Please, the only thing that drives new processor sales are games and high-end professional applications. Online shopping...<snicker>...
"We have been working closely with Internet software firms like Macromedia to create new technologies. Their next version of Shockwave will take advantage of powerful floating-point processors by using a frame counter to send more polygons... depending on your frame rate. Gaming and online shopping are both uses for this technology. Also a firm called Cycore has optimized their engine for Pentium 4 processor, mostly using this for online shopping. The Pentium 4 processor tends to do very well on Internet technologies such as Java and XML, as well as new usage models such as folks encoding their videos and posting them on the Net."
Online shopping? You need a 1.5GHz processor with 3.2GB/s of memory bandwidth for online shopping? What does Intel think we are? Stupid?
So I'm supposed to dump my machine so that Shockwave can display more polygons? Please, the only thing that drives new processor sales are games and high-end professional applications. Online shopping...<snicker>...