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perkam
10-30-2005, 11:59 AM
A pretty long article at The Inquirer on Intel's HTT plans:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=27317

Unfortunately, the entire article begins to come off as a huge rant seeing as the writer doesnt set out to make a point.

Good Article nonetheless: interesting info on Intel's Conroe :D

Perkam
nn_step
10-30-2005, 04:00 PM
That's why I was hoping that Intel, with the help of all those great ex-Alpha engineers, would create something better, faster and more scalable than HyperTransport - after all, the proposed EV8 Alpha link system for 2002 would have been far superior to even today's Hypertransport. The CSI (Common System Interconnect) was supposed to be just that, by 2007 - or at least, that was the order by the "senior management".



i couldn't agree more... The CSI made it so that not only could processors share information, bandwidth and cache They also could use each other's Memory controllers..
Now I would love to see that on a quad Core FB-DiMM Proc...
Too Bad Alpha Died ealier this year...
AMD should buy the rights...
freecableguy
10-30-2005, 04:09 PM
very interesting...
[XC] leviathan18
10-30-2005, 04:37 PM
so just copy the whole processor and that is all...

they are going with the same desing with same bus and same 64bits instruccions... with they dont merge and stop this competition....
Ugly n Grey
10-30-2005, 07:23 PM
You are starting to see the light lev.... IBM labs probably licenses as much "secret" design stuff to Intel as AMD, and AMD and Intel cross license technology off each other. It comes down to marketing and where they aim (how they build) their products for differentiation....
Piotrsama
10-31-2005, 06:18 AM
Too Bad Alpha Died ealier this year...
AMD should buy the rights...
Uhm, I might be wrong, but I think things are like this:
Alpha has died some years ago, not this year.
Alpha was bought by Compaq, which has been bought by HP, which is one of the 2 companies pushing Itanium (rival to Alpha and all the RISC processors).
So rights are belong to HP..... I don't know if they are willing to sell any of that.

If i'm wrong, just correct me :)
Ugly n Grey
10-31-2005, 07:00 AM
Actually HP gave design rights for Alpha over to Intel as part of the swapping going on over Itanium.
Mehmet_Ali
10-31-2005, 10:32 AM
wow intel an htt.sounds weird