Het the Intel Developer Forum is vandaag begonnen in San Jose, California. Zoals elk jaar het geval is levert dat stapels aan interessant Intel related nieuws op. De eerste dag dit jaar is geen uitzondering: als hoogte punt was er een demonstratie van een 1,5GHz Pentium 4 die met de standaard luchtkoeling helemaal naar 2GHz overgeclocked werd :
Albert Yu, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Microprocessor Products Group, offered an update on Intel processor technology. Yu touched on Intel's Itanium 64-bit server chip and its mobile processor technology and also made several Pentium 4 demonstrations, including showings of the 2GHz chip.
The demonstration began with a 1.5GHz chip; its clock speed was raised to 2GHz. The chip was air cooled, without special cooling technology.
"Pentium 4 will be the fastest desktop processor in the world" when it ships, Yu said.
Yu also demonstrated a desktop PC with a 1.4GHz Pentium 4 chip and 400MHz Rambus Direct RAM. The new chip, when compared with the Pentium III, enables higher frame rates in video and more realistic three-dimensional graphics, he said.[break]De Pentium 4 demo was niet het enige wat vandaag al aan bod is gekomen ook een mobile Pentium III met een verbruik van minder dan 1watt bij office gebruik en internet standaarden kwamen langs. Hieronder een stukje over de mobile Pentium III:[/break]Yu then took a few minutes to highlight Intel's efforts to develop low-power chips for notebook PCs. While he didn't mention rival Transmeta Corp. by name, he said, "very often we're confused by thermal power versus average power. For battery life, it's average power that matters."
Intel's low-power 500MHz mobile Pentium III has typical power consumption of 5.5 watts. However, average power consumed by the chip is about 850 milliwatts when running standard office applications, he said.
At the same time, he said, "CPU power is a very small portion of the entire platform."
Six hours is about the longest battery life offered by a notebook today. "That's not good enough," Yu said. "We need to collectively work to decrease the overall power of the platform."
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