INTEL CTO SEES "GIGA PC" ARRIVING BY HOLIDAY SEASON
In line with the "new wave of platform growth " that Craig discussed a few years back, or do we want to believe in the impending stone age a-la-FUCKenstein ?
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Anaheim, CA -- Dan Neel reported: Innovations from Intel and Microsoft,
combined with work by computer makers, will deliver what Intel Vice President
and CTO Pat Gelsinger calls the "Giga PC" by the end of the year.
In his keynote address at the WinHEC 2001 conference, Gelsinger said
the arrival of innovations such as gigahertz-speed system buses, gigabit
connectivity, gigabyte storage capacity, and faster Intel Pentium 4 processors
will all happen before the end of the year.
"The result of all [these innovations] will be what we think of as the Giga
PC," Gelsinger said.
WinHEC is Microsoft's annual developer's conference for computer makers.
The Intel CTO also told the audience to expect a 1.7GHz version of the Pentium
4 chip "very shortly."
According to Gelsinger, a Giga PC will likely run a version of the Windows XP
operating system. Microsoft announced a Beta 2 version of the simplified OS
here yesterday, promising full availability by the end of the year. XP is
based on the Windows NT kernel, according to Microsoft.
"Windows XP and the Pentium 4 processor will enable [the Giga PC]," said
Gelsinger, who added that Intel and Microsoft are aligned to deliver the Giga
PC before the holiday shopping season.
On the IA-32 front, Gelsinger said an SDRAM (synchronous DRAM) version of the
Pentium 4, code-named Brookdale, will arrive by the end of the year. IA-32 is
Intel's name for the company's 32-bit PC operating system.
On the IA-64 front, Gelsinger said that Intel's McKinley chip is still set to
go to market next year. McKinley, Intel's next-generation 64-bit processor for
high-end database applications, will be followed by improved versions of
itself, code-named Madison and Deerfield. No time line was given for Madison
or Deerfield.
Intel only recently began pilot programs for Itanium, McKinley's proof of
concept, late last year.
Gelsinger also said 64-bit client computers running a 64-bit version of
Windows XP will hit the market in the second half of this year.
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