INTEL AND IBM DESCRIBE ONE GIGAHERTZ MICROPROCESSORS.At the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , Intel Corp. and 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) presented papers describing microprocessors This is a list of microprocessors. Intel
(unit) GigaHertz - (GHz) Billions of cycles per second. The unit of frequency used to measure the clock rate of modern digital logic, including microprocessors. speeds and announce that they will introduce chips with that capability during the coming year. The gigahertz speed (a billion cycles a second) will make possible applications not feasible with any of today's existing chips. Among the possible uses are truly interactive voice recognition and expanded uses of video along with as yet unimagined uses. A gigahertz chip was once thought to be technically if not theoretically impossible. Indeed, with the emergence of the gigahertz chip, it appears likely that the 3 or 4 gigahertz range can be developed very rapidly. IBM described a 64-bit, 1 gigahertz version of the PowerPC processor and indicated that it will be selling such chips within the second half of the year 2000. Intel presented a paper describing a one gigahertz version of the 32-bit Pentium III The successor to the Pentium II from Intel. Introduced in the spring of 1999 at 500 MHz, the Pentium III architecture was similar to the Pentium II with the addition of 70 new instructions optimized for multimedia (see SSE). processor and will release details on the forthcoming 64-bit Itanium chip which may be introduced a gigahertz clock rate, again in the second half of this year. The production of the gigahertz chip will require an estimated investment by Intel of $8.8 billion on research and development in the year 2000. Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., has said it will introduce a gigahertz version of its Athlon processor again in the second half of the year 2000. |
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