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Released Intel(R) Information.

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dannyinfo

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We at Intel wanted to be the first to inform you about one of our newest product; the Intel® Web Tablet. The Intel® Web Tablet is a wireless Internet device that allows you to surf the web from anywhere in the home. The tablet extends the value of the home PC because it shares the PC's Internet connection and printer. This allows two people to surf the net independently, one using the tablet, and one using the PC, sharing one connection.

Today, Intel released information on the tablet browser, processor, and operating system on the Intel(R) Web Tablet web site. Please visit
http://www.intel.com/home/webtablet to find out more about the technology used in the tablet. Click on the ?Think Forward? button in the left navigation to find out when further tablet information will be released!

Danny
webtablet.information@intel.net
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Cool to see you're enthusiastic about your new product, Danny, but *ahem* posting that info here in the Distributed Computing Forum is a bit off-topic. To make up for your gaffe, you must join Team AnandTech, get all your home PC's working on distributed-computing projects with us, and convince your network administrator to let you assimilate your department, or all of Intel if possible. We will give you a month. 😉
 
we need benchmarks buddy!

dont go tellin me about some tablet thingy until you got some RC5 benchmarks for us, on all cores if possible, and throw in OGR and SETI too, to keep us all happy, and be sure to let your programmers know we would appreciate a "Tablet-Optimized" version too.
 
I believe this tablet would be using the remnants of the Timna (correct ??) processor core - a highly integrated Intel CPU/chipset which never made it to the desktop. It would have offered around Celeron performance at the core level (ie. RC5), but overall would be like every other integrated solution, bad all-round (like SETI - hmmm, Cyrix GX chips come to mind).

Pure speculation. Danny, post is off-topic, but as long as we have an intel guy here, I got a little something for you guys to have a think about (no, not CPU pricing or something like that), ie. a P4 optimisation for the Distributed.net source code. If you guys can program a MPEG2 encoder for the P4 in one night, this should only take a couple of hours 😉
 
Wow, I know "Timna!" When I co-oped at Intel in Folsom (Sacramento) back in early 99 in the Graphics Component Division (GCD), my manager mentioned Timna many times. While working on the graphics part of the i810 (if you can call setting off a job to be run in Unix, babysitting it for most of the day, and then letting your boss know when it's done WORK) some of the future projects were Timna, Capitola, and Flagstaff. Man I wish I could remember more.

But I quit out of computer engineering after two co-ops at Intel because it sucked so bad. Such a big company you didn't feel like what you were doing added to the company whatsoever. Spending 4 years on this hard as hell engineering degree just to run simultations all day and surf the rest of the time, which was OK because what else was I going to do while sitting around there? Sleep?

Now I went to a 2 year school, got a Computer Information Systems degree, and now am Manager of IS at a medium-sized credit union and LOVE it. Plus I gotz lotz of machines I have full control over and assimilate. 🙂

Still looking for a distributed computing client of some type for our Unisys mainframe though 🙂
 
VSS, I love your suggestion! It would be great if the Intel wizards could write an extremely optiomized dnet client! 😀

Would this help? The G4s run CIRCLES around Intel chips at RC5 cracking. Surely an optimized P4 core could do better, think of the advertising!

😉😉
 
nah, timna used the memory controller from the i820. which meant rdram. which was expensive. so they were going to put an MTH in the thing. except that causes tons of errors. so they canned it. i'll bet this thing uses StrongAR... er... ahem... XScale processors. i don't think theres a dnet client for that. though i could be wrong.
 
i960?

I think I'm gonna stick with looking at the 1.1V Low-Power Celeron
and the MX integrated North/South chipset.
 
ElFenix,

I dont think it would be Timna based either, as I said was aimed at desktop. But Intel being who they are, always have a trick up their sleeve, and lately they have been doing some impressive work on making core logic and other complex components running at power levels of less than 1W.

As far as a P4 Dnet client goes, P4 can handle 128-bit integer numbers in SSE2 (and I think process two at a time - dont hold me to that though). As far as the RC5 encryption method goes, it is 32-bit based so the P4 should be able to churn out some damn high key-rates.

Unfortunately I dont have the necessary knowledge of either ASM, C, or SSE2 to play about with the client otherwise I'd have loved to have taken a shot.
 
the power consumption of timna isn't what makes me think it would be an xscale microcontroller instead, its the fact that timna had an integrated rdram controller instead of sdram controller, so it makes use of expensive, and power sucking, rdram. mostly expensive.

for some reason theres about 200 doves sitting in the tree outside my window. this can't be good.
 
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