Former Intel CPU Architech speaks at Stanford.....

[nailbomb]

Interesting video to watch:

http://stanford-online.stanford.edu/courses/ee380/040218-ee380-100.asx

[Kanavit]

The Pentium4 is based on the P6 core or Pentium Pro.

[enzoR]

P6

[Soulburner]

Originally posted by Kanavit
The Pentium4 is based on the P6 core or Pentium Pro.
...and your point is?

Anyway...very interesting watch. I agree wholly that Intel does need to take a new direction. It is very true that processor development has been driven by the economy and not what's actually the "best thing" to do.

On the other hand AMD plays the game much differently, they concentrate on making processors as fast and efficient as possible, and seem to have the idea of making the better overall processor and not just going where the money is.

[a5h]

watching ....

[Kanavit]

1hr 45 min video, quite long but very interesting and entertaining to watch. The creator of the P6 core says that the Itanium could die just like the alpha chip, because no server chip has ever survived on its own. Because of economics of the vertical ceiling.
And the birth of the x86-64. something like that how itanium was originally designed to replace IA32 in 1999. but that didn't happened so now the Itanium has no target, and may face extinction.

He also talks about moore's law and cpu die architecture and future of a wall about Heat and restraints.

[nailbomb]

I thought it was rather amusing. And he seems to have a sense of humor as well.

[Kanavit]

yeah, the funny thing is he just built himself a P4 3.0ghz system and his kids use that for gaming, because his PentiumII 266 was too slow. He has 9 computers in his house. Also, did the dude get demoted by Intel because they rejected his ideas? or what, I didnt quite catch it. lol

u would think he would build himself an P4 EE system with all the money he's making.

[Soulburner]

The video was in 2003 but didn't say when. The EE may not have been out yet.

[Spider]

i'm sorry but that's really boring, i cant watch some guy talk about cpu architecture for allmost 2 hours ;)

[Kanavit]

Originally posted by Spider
i'm sorry but that's really boring, i cant watch some guy talk about cpu architecture for allmost 2 hours ;) it's not just about cpu architecture, the guy also spoke about how today's graphic cards are so powerful, it essentially killed the need for workstation computing. Before, the arcade 25cent a pop use to be better than PC, but now today's home computers can run graphics much better and faster.

[Maxprime]

Good link - nice vid.

[dim3z]

that was really interesting and insightfull, quite a good laugh at times aswell. i didnt get a video stream just the audio was it meant to be like that?

[Soulburner]

No you probably don't have the codec to view it.

I don't remember what it was but get these:

www.divx.com

[Kalway]

So P4 is pased off of the Original Pentium core? Tell me something I didn't already know about 3 years ago. Precisely why I've never bought a P4 system. I dumped my P1 200mmx system a long time ago.

[Peen]

p3 was the last of that core. p4 is based on the netburst core

[Sucka]

Interesting watch there, thanks for posting the link :toast:

[nailbomb]

He had some rather 'amusing' comments about Itanium, and how its been positioned, repositioned, and then repositioned yet again ;)