COOL CHIPS ARE "HOT" AT STANFORD CONFERENCE.A number of cool microprocessor chips will make their appearance at the Hot Chips 2000 conference (www.hotchips.org), on Aug. 13-15, 2000 at Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . Hot Chips is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. , Hewlett-Packard, 3Com, Compaq, and Morgan-Kaufman Publishers. The conference, which focuses on real products and technology, features presentations that include: * Intel giving the first glimpse of the Itanium processor core, the first 1A-64 processor addressing e-Business, visualization, computation and multimedia through it's 64-bit architecture and enhanced instruction handling; * IBM's Memory eXpansion Technology (MXT (Memory eXpansion Technology) A memory expansion technique introduced by IBM in 2002 for its Intel-based xSeries servers. Using a hardware compression algorithm, MXT doubles the amount of main memory in the computer. It is also available for licensing to other vendors. ), which can double a computer's memory capacity. * IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) researchers will discuss the challenges of building the world's first five-qubit quantum computer, designed to crunch complex algorithms using atoms that act as the computer processor and memory; * Two presentations by Transmeta on there new "Crusoe" processor which runs cool because of low power consumption, but maintains high performance and full x86 compatibility for use in Mobile Internet Computing; * Alchemy's Au1000 Internet Edge Processor, a system-on-a-chip (SOP) based on the MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. 32 instruction set; which can run on a flashlight battery; * A presentation by Texas Instruments on the newest extensions to their venerable c64x DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive architecture designed to increase performance for broadband communications and imaging applications. |
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