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Product Idea: Pentium "Final Edition"

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Pandaren

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The Register is reporting that the Tulsa core Xeon isn't getting much attention because it is based on the much criticized Netburst architecture.

The Register

Tulsa is a dual-core netburst chip with a gargantuan 16MB shared L3 cache. Each core has its own 1MB L2 and runs at 3.4 GHz. Total number of transistors is I believe somewhere around 1.3 Billion, and TDP runs as high as 150 Watts.

I think it would be hilarious if Intel released a verson of this chip in LGA775 format and called it the Pentium Final Edition. It would be the biggest, baddest, hottest running chip ever, and the last Pentium off Intel's fab lines.

Realistically though, I don't think Intel would waste the money to qualify this chip for use in desktop platforms.
 
Doesn't suprise me. Intel has the desktop and low end server market undercontrol but amd still has the 4 and above multiprocessor market.
 
Originally posted by: ncage
Doesn't suprise me. Intel has the desktop and low end server market undercontrol but amd still has the 4 and above multiprocessor market.
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Hardly.

I'd say IBM and Sun have the above four cpu market. I don't see too many people buying million dollar AMD systems. Just about everyone on the Fortune 500 has several million dollar IBM systems.
 
Originally posted by: Questar
Originally posted by: ncage
Doesn't suprise me. Intel has the desktop and low end server market undercontrol but amd still has the 4 and above multiprocessor market.
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Hardly.

I'd say IBM and Sun have the above four cpu market. I don't see too many people buying million dollar AMD systems. Just about everyone on the Fortune 500 has several million dollar IBM systems.
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Umm Hardly.....yes fortune 500 companies might buy expensive Unix/Linux multi-proc servers but there are a lot of smaller companies that can't afford machines like this. There are a lot of companies that buy 4-8 proc machines. My comment had NOTHING to do with RISC chips it had everything to do with x86 chips. Also AMD chips can be used in higher specialized configurations. Cray has even started using them.
 
The P4 Portable Heater Edition and only sell it in Canada 😉





(Lame frozen waste joke. But any mounties reading this are too darn polite to take offense, eh?)
 
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