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08-16-2005, 11:42 AM
Looks like the guys at Intel were reading our discussion/praise of the Pentium M architecture here in PCGuide (http://www.pcguide.com/vb/showthread.php?t=38857) , or maybe they read the THG article...or maybe they just looked at the data and came to the same inevitable conclusion. It looks like the new architecture that will be announced next week will be a branch off the Pentium M tree.
Although it does not run as fast as the Pentium 4 chip and lacks features such as 64-bit addressing, a given Pentium M uses about a quarter of the power of a similarly ranked Pentium 4 and performs nearly as well.
Thus Intel is expected to create the equivalent of a super Pentium M with some features that are also found in NetBurst, including Hyperthreading and 64-bit addressing.
The resulting chips are expected to be faster and to have more capabilities than the Pentium M, but be just as miserly on power.
These power-efficient, multicore chips will bump up the performance of notebooks and servers. But they're likely to have to most visible and drastic affects on desktops.
From: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848474,00.asp
Although it does not run as fast as the Pentium 4 chip and lacks features such as 64-bit addressing, a given Pentium M uses about a quarter of the power of a similarly ranked Pentium 4 and performs nearly as well.
Thus Intel is expected to create the equivalent of a super Pentium M with some features that are also found in NetBurst, including Hyperthreading and 64-bit addressing.
The resulting chips are expected to be faster and to have more capabilities than the Pentium M, but be just as miserly on power.
These power-efficient, multicore chips will bump up the performance of notebooks and servers. But they're likely to have to most visible and drastic affects on desktops.
From: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848474,00.asp