10ghz P4's

[Guest]

I read somewhere on these boards that there is evidence that the P4's will hit 10ghz (possibly soon). Don't bet on it. AMD is coming out with their 64-bit processor, and anyway it wont happen this year cuz i heard in pc gamer a few months ago that an intel spokesman said they would hit 10ghz around 2006. Also, architecture improvements will be made along the way, and memory technology is taking giant strides as we speak. Even if it is the P4 core, it will be almost entirely different from what the P4 is today.

-pedro229

 

[Guest]

Hopefully RAMBUS will be long extinct by then...

 

[Raystonn]

About as different as the P2-200MHz was from the P3-1GHz.

-Raystonn

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[girish]

P2 200 MHz?
slowest P2 available was 233 MHz.
and P2 and P3 are not too different as were Pentium 233MMX and P-II 233.
P2 and P3 use the same core, but P3 offers SIMD, unique serial number and a few enhancements. apart from these, its the same architecture even Celeron sports. and that P3 started at 450 MHz, where P2 left off. P2 started with a 66 MHz bus till 333, then 100 MHz from 350 MHz versions. P3 has a mixed variety of FSBs for 600+ MHz CPUs. and initiallly, they even used the same slot, that now P3 also comes in sockets.

remember, later P4s (Northwoods and later) will not use socket 423, but 478.

if this is the scale of difference you say, then P4 and P4@10G will be much the same. and this cannot be, as we are discussing in a spearate thread.

girish

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[Raystonn]

"and this cannot be"

I beg to differ. It definately will be.

-Raystonn

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