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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim Black who wrote (634)7/8/1996 7:42:00 PM
From: Terje Oseberg   of 1585830
 
Jim, I agree.

Just look at the fastest processors out there:
R5500, R10000, Alpha. All the others. How much
faster are they than a Pentium Pro? It used to
be that such processors were way faster, but
the gap is closing, and the improvements on those
chips for each itteration is closing. I beleive
that this means that the Pentium Pro doesn't have
much room to move until something else changes.
Well, what I think need to change is that someone
needs to design the chips really cheap so that
people can have more than one on the M/B. Then
they can just run a multi processor operating
system. SGI has made them for years with up to
eight processors. Others have made them with more.
Now it is time for PC's with eight or more processors
to get the real speed. They are coming. Until then
I don't thing we will get so much speed improvement
except a few more MHz, and better balanced CPU design
where the FPU, CPU, and memory interface better,
unless we have some major improvement in process
size.

Terje
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