On Thursday 31 January 2008 20:24:42 Tobias Gogolin wrote:
> Im thinking as wide an as fast as possible (overclockable)
> But in the real wold there are 2 big manufacturers and so far dual and quad
> cores!
> Im also very power conscious and I want to be conservative, so Im guessing
> smallest feature size is best!

Hehe, people tend to forget VIA. They've pretty much cornered the low end 
mini/nano/pico-itx business. And their latest Isaiah core is getting good 
reviews. I've always been a fan of VIA x86 processors.

If you're extremely power conscious, look at VIA. I would be interested on how 
they compare with Geode processors though. AMD seems to only do Geode 
benchmarks againts other Geode processors.

> Its funny the other day I was giving a presentation on parallel computing
> and nobody guessed the actual transistor count that has been exponentially
> rising with Moores law!
> More than 300 Millions on a regular Graphics Processor, simply Amazing!

I'm actually hoping that we'll see an end to the madness. I'm hoping that the 
transistor counts will stay constant or reduce. And I'm actually hoping to 
see different architectures come into the mainstream.

Cheers.

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