Intel CPU began to implement the "cache decision" strategy

Intel "frequency is" tactical difficulties encountered hitherto unknown market, October to release 4GHz P4 bounced, and 3 months later, Intel is still not released faster frequency CPU. Intel seemed to weave a net for himself and then put himself in it.

Intel will not because they can not develop a higher frequency of CPU and give up the market, they began to implement the Cache is King (cache determines everything) strategy. The processor cache on its official website is getting bigger and bigger. Intel decided to make Xeon MP (designed for four way server) cache double. Moreover, Intel will be released in the second quarter of the Potomac core will use a larger cache.

Intel the current 3GHz Xeon MP core cache has been 4M, but according to the public information Intel, Potomac's size is larger than the current Cache! Reached 8M. But its performance is only about 16.7% faster than the current (3GHz equivalent to 3.5GHz Potomac Xeon MP).

This can not help but think of the 98 years of graphics cards, then a piece of 4M with a Voodoo cache is definitely a luxury, and a few years later, 128M graphics cards are not surprising. If Intel go down this road, it may not be a few years after the size of the Cache can also have 128M it?

The cost of increasing the cache is huge. Not only increase the cost, reduce the yield, finished product heat is a problem. At present, the heat of Intel CPU has a tendency to catch up with AMD. In this sky Laba day, or perhaps a good thing, but if the dog may "cause perspiration comes down like raindrops, global warming" this nonsense hat will from the head to head the Intel AMD button on the.

The Intel also announced the cache for 1M 3.8GHzP4 660CPU, and will be released in the first quarter of 2005. There are P4 670CPU, the cache is 2M, released this fall; dual core CPU X40 will also be released in the third quarter.

Very interesting is the name of the X40, according to Krewell's explanation, X means an unknown code. The core of the two Smithfield in fact, the name of the Intel inside the CPU on the P4 and P4 940 of the dispute, and finally who also compete for who, had to be named after the X40.

Whether it is to improve the cache or dual core CPU, to enhance the performance is limited, the best way to improve the ability to calculate the single core CPU itself, but Intel does not seem to be able to.

Don't say that Intel has been exhausted? Or another outbreak of energy savings. Was the time for Intel to stay in P 450? Then you will not be anxious to see the next generation of Intel in the next six months, and in 2000 Intel released a few CPU in a week is the energy stored in the outbreak of the CPU.