Mike O'Connor wrote:

> From CNET:
>
>Intel ready to ship dual-core processors
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>By CNET Labs manager, Daniel A. Begun
>March 15, 2005
>
>  
>


For any wondering why we don't have PCs built onto our fingernails, I 
sent CNET the following:

Correction needed to:

[http://www.cnet.com/4520-6022_1-5756419-1.html?tag=nl.e404]

Intel ready to ship dual-core processors

By CNET Labs manager, Daniel A. Begun
March 15, 2005

in section :

Making its debut

The first dual-core processors we'll see from Intel will be for high-end 
desktops. One will be a Pentium 4 Processor Extreme Edition. It will 
feature two 3.2GHz execution units--each of which includes 1MB of L2 
cache and supports Hyper-Threading--for a total of 2MB of L2 cache and 
support for four execution threads. The CPU will operate on an 800MHz 
frontside bus and will include Intel's new 64-bit Extended Memory 64 
Technology (EM64T) and Execute Disable Bit functionality. The 206nm² die 
will be built on Intel's 90nm process technology and will include a 
whopping 230 million transistors. Intel will continue to use the LGA775 
package, but the new chip will not work in motherboards that use older 
chipsets.

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It's pretty obvious that if iNTEL were able to build a 206nm^2 die [vice 
206mm^2] they'd be able to shrink PC size/power/heat vastly from what 
the reality is!

regards,

Mike O'Connor
Running OS/2 and eComstation derivatives
 - an OS that is already multi-threaded
without requiring hardware assistance from iNTEL!

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Regards,
Mike

Failed the exam for
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