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Intel
P4 Platform Roadmap Analysis
by Bert
McComas, Analyst,
InQuest Market Research
August 15, 2000
After a Series of Somewhat Tainted Product
Releases, What's Next for Chip Giant Intel?
Without question, the last 12 months
have been very difficult for Intel. Seemingly, many or most of Intel’s
high-end strategies have been tainted with disappointment – namely Rambus,
Camino, MTH, Flip Chip, Profusion, Merced and others. In these efforts,
Intel has tried to undertake the exotic, and met with frustration. more
Motorola and Apple: Enhanced G4-II and 64-bit G5 In Wings
At
last fall's Microprocessor Forum, Motorola outlined the prospective roadmap
for their PowerPC line. There were two main revelations associated with
this announcement: first, a new 64-bit processor, the PowerPC 7500 or
G5, would be forthcoming sometime in 2001; and second the current PowerPC
7400 or G4 would be revamped to create a second generation G4 with a new
microarchitecture and adjusted clock speeds to bring it more in line with
the parallel speed jumps of the Intel/AMD development race. more
From Thunderbird to SledgeHammer: AMD Digs In
AMD has firmly entrenched
itself in the mid-range performance and value segments of the processor
market. It's roadmap for development over the next year signals their
new attack on the top-end server and workstation market, while including
new versions of the Athlon technology to handle the mid-range, as well
as a reworking of their K6 chips for mobile systems. more
Merced, McKinley, Madison, Deerfield, Northwood, et al: The Intel
IA-64 Family -- Itanium and Beyond
Intel's development of the chip
technology currently known as Itanium, has been in the works for more
than a decade. Initially a Hewlett-Packard design, the EPIC (explicitly
parallel instruction computing) IA-64 architecture was brought by HP to
Intel as a joint HP-Intel project in order to benefit from Intel's higher
exposure, deep market penetration, and design and manufacturing resources.
more
The Next Pentium For the Mid-range: The
Intel Pentium IV -- Willamette (P7)
In the wings waiting to appear
in the mid-range computer segment is Intel's next new 32-bit chip architecture,
code-named Willamette. Until recently less has been known about this new
processor due to the focus on the new IA-64 Itanium, and the progressively
faster Coppermine Pentium III chips. However, on the eve of the February
15th Intel Developer Forum in Palm Springs, where Willamette will be introduced,
details about the possible new "Pentium IV" have started to leak out.
Here is a look at what to expect. more
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