Monday October 31, 2005

Fall - Its The Season Of Microprocessors On The Road To Multicore! It was a big week for microprocessors at the Fall Processor Forum in San Jose, and I wish I could have been there. Reading the web bits and bytes covering the forum was close to overdosing on caffeine for the processor engineer. In my short 10 years in the arena, I can't remember the last time so many processors vied for center stage: PWRficient(TM) from P.A Semi on the dark (big blue) side of the architectural force, to Fujitsu's Sparc64 VI+ Jupiter, to my personal favorite - Niagara :) ... The traffic is getting busy on the road to multicore! Also resounding in the media was the Intel inside(R) sound with another Itanic groan. Intel delayed (Montecito) its dual-core Itanium, and announced plans to give the Xeon line an interconnect booster shot called 'Tigerton' (seemingly reactive to AMD's dual-core Opteron, and to replace the dead Whitefield). You probably knew all this. What is conspicuous and reassuring is the following of multicore roadmaps gathering behind the pied pipers like Sun. As they say - imitation is the best form of flattery! (2005-10-31 23:16:00.0) Permalink Comments [0]