NEC announces PC on 1GHz Crusoe TM5800
Intel XScale 80200T: new "all-weather" processor for integrated systems
Intel Hyper-Threading evolution roadmap
NEC announces PC on 1GHz Crusoe TM5800
NEC, one of the most consistent partners of Transmeta, announced (currently in Japan) new desktop PC on 1GHz Crusoe TM5800 — NEC Mate MA10W/FE. No surprise if the company will present new PowerMate eco for the North American and European markets (currently it ships desktop PowerMate eco on 900 MHz Crusoe).
Besides new 1GHz chip, MA10W/FE features 17-inch SXGA (1280x1024) LCD, ALi M1535 chipset and ATI MOBILITY RADEON graphics, 20GB HDD, 128MB DDR SDRAM, Fast Ethernet and 24x CD-ROM.
With Windows XP Professional the notebook will appear in Japanese retail early in December for about $2500. According to IDG News, in Europe and Northern America the company will initially announce 1GHz Crusoe-based notebook with 15" display in December/January.
Intel XScale 80200T: new "all-weather" processor for integrated systems
Intel announced new 80200T application processor, based on Intel Xscale, capable of wide temperature range operation.
Intel 80200T works at up to 733MHz, requires less than 1.3W and is certified for –40°C to +85°C conditions. This makes Intel 80200T perfect for telematics, car construction, industry and communications.
Intel 80200T will feature 200, 400, 600, 733 MHz clocks. In 10,000-unit quantities it will cost $30, $42, $66, $103, respectively. All Intel 80200T versions will appear in retail in February.
Intel Hyper-Threading evolution roadmap
After the recent announcement of Intel Hyper-Threading, I guess everyone understands that the company will develop the technology further for new processors. In his interview for Japanese PC Watch William M. Siu, vice-president and director of Intel Desktop Platforms Group shed some light on Hyper-Threading evolution plans.
In 2003 Hyper-Threading will be implemented into all Pentium 4 products along with their price cut. Initially, Intel planned to use HT with 3.06 GHz P4 and higher, however this might be reconsidered and, perhaps, we’ll see Hyper-Threading in chips of several price ranges by summer, including <3GHz P4.
The next logical innovation: as Hyper-Threading is supported by today’s high-end Northwood processors, why shouldn’t Intel embed it into Celerons with the same core? In the interview Siu has underlined that the question of releasing mainstream HT products is still raised, though doesn’t include any technical limits.
The situation with mobile CPUs, supporting HT, is more complex. According to industry sources, mainly due to Microsoft delays of Hyper-Threading and C3/C4 power saving modes implementation. So the Hyper-Threading mobile support might appear only in Longhorn.
The development of products, supporting more than two virtual processors, will be the main line of Hyper-Threading evolution for these years. There’s no specific data on this question, but supposedly the next generation processors with Nehalem core, expected in H2 2004, will be able to handle up to four threads. In other words, 4-processor server will feature 16 virtual devices.
The development of TLP (Thread-Level Parallelism) won’t be limited to IA-32 platform. TLP is expected in the next generation of 64-bit IA-64 (Itanium). Most likely, it will happen closer to 2005 along with the appearance of new 64-bit 65-nm Chivano featuring about 400 sq.mm core, about 100 million transistors, and several processing cores per chip.
Source: PC Watch
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