Tidbits
What's new for Itanium? Lots of new features- Dual Core
- Cache Reliability
- Multithreading
- Power Management
- Performance
- PCI Express
Bringing these to the market is pointless without all of the support in place. For example Morgan Stanley decided to put technology in to place to reduce the costs and continue to serve clients in the volumes that they trade.
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Barrett also confirmed that Intel will have 64bit within Prescott before the end of the year. The new core of Xeon is to be called Nocona. This will also have the following features
- PCI-Express
- Faster FSB
- DDR2 Memory
- Power Management Technology
- 64 Bit Extensions
- SEE3 Instructions
From the Q and A with Barrett at the end he re-iterated that they have the differnet micro-architecture within the core. But the software support will mean it will run on both. We believe that it will be a pure addressing thing. But until Intel release the part later this year we will not be able to establish if its the AMD instruction set which Intel have IP rights on. From what he said we believe this to be the case, meaning it runs the A64 Windows XP version
The digital home is becoming a reality but not with the bringing of the PC in to the living room, but with the solution of the broadband. Intel has created a Sandal platform which is a 2005 platform it is a Entertainment PC with a seamless communication system within your home. Intel has not talked about the CPU within the box as yet, but it does have wireless (UWB) with 480MB/s at a range of 2Metres for Short range transmission
The shift away from wires is strong with the implementation of the WiMax, 4G, 3G etc for mobile solutions the next phase with handheld devices and the music industry.
Virgin MegaStore are going to be launching a new listening station they will have XScale based PDA connected to the stores Wireless network and they are using software from MusicKube. The PDA is called the "Personal user guide" You can scan it and hear 30 second sound clips. The latest concept phone from intel with 802.11 integrated with Bluetooth too, and an 1.3MP camera, and a LCD display with PC quality audio. This is called "Zore" CPU, it comes with wireless MMX quality, but still minimising on the power usage. The sound example was incredible. You can scan a barcode and then it look up a song and send it to you. All I can say about this demo impressive.
Laptop Segment shift: The Florence platform has some of the latest technology a Dothan CPU built in, battery characteristics and communication are all present. Comes with GRPS, 802.11G and D present too. 16*10 Screen, Camera, and a number of microphones integrated, with also a finger print scanner for biometrics. The best feature is the micro screen which records the data going in and out.
