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To: andy kelly who wrote (154486)1/9/2002 3:58:19 PM
From: Saturn V   of 186894
 
Ref <I thought banias was using a P3 core and was basically aimed at the low end market, similar to most integrated product in the past. Would you expect it to out perform a reved up P4m >

My understanding from various webcasts is as follows:

A. Banias has neither a P3 core, nor a P4 core.

B. It is a totally new core which is larger than P3, but where the extra transistors are used to reduce the power dissipation rather than to increase processor thruput.

C. The speed of Banias will lie between P3 and P4. Apparently the aging P3 core cannot be speeded up significantly, and we may seen the last processor designed around the Pentium Pro core. However power dissipation of Banias will be dramatically lower than the P4.

D. The Banias is obviously designed with Transmeta in its cross hairs, so I will not be surprised if its power drain will be even lower than todays mobile PIII devices.

E. I am speculating that the Banias may incorporate the the Northbridge chip set( memory interface device), along with other peripheral chips. Integrating the Northbrige chip is easy if you dont allow multiple processsors, which is not a problem with the laptop market, and the onchip memory controller significantly boosts the performance.
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