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Offuscation maximus

Cyrix was the first chipmaker to give up on megahertz numbers and give "equivalent" numbers to InHell chips. AMD scoffed at the idea at the time and happily branded their chips with megahertz numbers. Oh how times have changed! I guess Cyrix had the better idea after all!

InHell will put two CPU cores on a chip, but NOT a memory controller? Whats' up with that? Sun is trying to eliminate chip interconnects itself - by presumably linking all chips into a "superchip". This "computer on a chip" design is finally becomming a reality.

I would have to argue that NOT putting a memory controller on a chip is STUPID! Presumably, you have a separate memory controller so that you could swap it out (upgrade) it in the future. Hey dude, UPGRADES ARE DEAD! Every time you want a faster machine (i.e. CPU), you HAVE to buy a new motherboard. Motherboards today are only upgradable so far - and its usually not good enough (if they are older than about 1yr). Example: Buy a AMD64 2800 and the motherboard is capable of going to a AMD64 3500 - BUT a year later, the AMD64 3800 is available and guess what, it has a DIFFERENT SOCKET. Upgrades are dead. Motherboards get upgraded along with CPUs. No need to have a separate memory controller.

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 07/29/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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