Intel ROCKS!

Published 17 September 03 07:04 PM | RWlodarczyk 

I've always liked Intel over AMD, and I think today I see yet another reason why this is the case. I always felt that Intel is more of an innovator than is AMD (well, the only exception may be with AMD's Opteron (aka AMD64)). Intel has proved time and time again some brilliant engineering. Once example of this is their Hyper-Threading. This is a fantastic piece of engineering that is quite amazing.

Today Intel has done it again... They demoed their new Vanderpool chips. From the sounds of it, they seriously ROCK! What you can do with these processor is actually partition them into individual units. From the sounds of it, you can parition the processor to do one thing while the other partition(s) are doing something completely unrelated. It seems like having 2 PCs in one (then again, this is all early information, so, this may be totally inaccurate!).

In any case, here is the reference.

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# Mike said on September 17, 2003 10:24 PM:
You read it right. That is going to be an awesome feature for servers. 100% uptime should now be possible.
# Chris Martin said on September 18, 2003 12:20 AM:
I don't know about 100% uptime. That is an eternal dream in this industry. We can get very close now. But, the OS is really the problem in this area.

I did find a very interesting thread about the Vanderpool technology coming out of Intel. http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&threadm=3WJFt5TDrt%24n%40eisner.encompasserve.org&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3Dutf-8%26q%3DIntel%2BVanderpool%26sa%3DN%26tab%3Dwg

It seems this isn't really a new technology. It would be new to the wintel platform however.
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Robert has been at Microsoft since August 2003. He has worked on WPF Imaging, Media, and Effects, and Windows Vista (in the form of the Windows Imaging Component). He is currently the test lead for the Windows Imaging Component.
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