Intel 'Braidwood' chip targets snappier software
Intel appears ready to take another crack at flash memory-based acceleration--this time offering it with future chipsets.
Intel Braidwood technology is based on a flash memory module.
(Credit: Intel)"Braidwood is a flash memory technology that provides faster boot-up time, faster application launch, and a snappier, more responsive system," said Rob Crooke, vice president and general manager of Intel's Business Client Group, speaking during a presentation streamed over the Web from the Computex conference in Taipei, Taiwan, earlier this week.
Braidwood will be offered with the future "5 Series" chipset family--which is Intel's first single-chip chipset--and the future "Clarkdale" processor (see discussion below).
The architecture accelerates I/O (input/output) accesses by saving that data to flash memory, according to Crooke. In a demonstration at Computex, Crooke showed Braidwood "caching the I/O...And then, when it launches that application again, it happens very quickly," he said.
Intel's first stab at technology analogous to Braidwood came in 2006. That product was code-named Robson and eventually branded as Turbo Memory. But it only received lukewarm reviews and was never adopted widely.
"Clarkdale," a Nehalem-based processor, will be offered with Braidwood, according to Intel documentation released at Computex. Clarkdale will integrate graphics silicon into the same package as the main processor. It is on track to begin production in the fourth quarter of this year--with systems available in 2010--and is built on Intel's second-generation 32-nanometer process technology. Clarkdale will be offered with the Intel 5 Series chipset.
On another front, Crooke also talked about the mainstreaming of Intel's Nehalem Core i7 desktop chips, which are currently limited to high-end enthusiast systems. Due later this year, the "Lynnfield" processor is a new four-core, eight-thread processor that will be paired with the P55 Express chipset. Threads essentially double the number of tasks a processor can perform.
Users can expect 40 percent better performance on widely used SPECint benchmarks with the Lynnfield-based platform, compared with last year's mainstream Core Q9650 processor-based technology, Crooke said.
Brooke Crothers has served as an editor at large at CNET News, an editor at Dow Jones' Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly, and a senior editor at InfoWorld. His CNET blog covers chip technology and computer systems, and how they define the computing experience. He also contributes to The New York Times' Bits and Technology sections. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure. Follow Brooke on Twitter @mbrookec. 
every quarter.
AMD demoed the first DirectX 11 GPU...
AMD just released a 6-core CPU
in 2008
Besides, AMD will be releasing a 12 core CPU when Intel is scheduled to release their 8-core.
Phenom II 720 vs E8400, AMD wins
Radeon HD 3200 vs GMA X4500, AMD wins
the high end server market is still populated by mainly AMD systems
The worlds fastest supercomputer uses Opty+POWER
AMD loses in many categories like the performance crown for desktop processors, or in the mobile arena
but is AMD still competitive? Hell yeah
@tipoo_
Intel already has their 8 core out
beats the crap out of current Opty's I think, we'll just have to wait for the 12 core Opterons to come out to see if Intel will get the high end server market
until the Nehalem EX came about, every Xeon added to a server reduced the bandwidth instead of increasing it like the Opterons, when you have 8 processors in a server, this really made a difference
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(13 Comments)If indeed Intel could produce small chip-sets that fit inside SD-IO style units offering a high degree of Carbon Nano tube advantages in their Layout how then would.
The main board the chip-sets are mounted into cope with the better IO capabilities and how would would you fabricate suitable Transistor types for such Integrated Circuitry.
One option for the main board to work Optically via the use of Gates that cheaply switch well from electrical signals to optical ones over a fiber bus.
And the Option for the Transistor types is to use more sophisticated energy and network core management at first to compensate for any issues such a technological transition might incur.
What Intel is not going to be able to do is Quickly switch over to the option of building the whole thing In a Dynamic Energy Efficient Layered All carbon Nano Tube form straight of the first production run when moving down from their future 22 nm Fabrication types.
This will probably mean that Intel will indeed have to first use more Cumbersome types of Dynamically layered designs first at low degrees of shrink in terms of gate sizes (probably after 22nm will be more like 18.23nm) That make initial uses of carbon Nano tubing first as opposed to total Cabon .
This means that intel will indeed be offering more Elite options for the full market as to recoup the Investment costs needed for design and fabrication evolution of the further steps and yes that you will probably be talking about gate sizes in scales that work to two decimal places like 18.23nm as opposed to 18nm and will be focusing more on the amount of transistors of a complete mount as opposed to how many are packed on a couple layers on the die surface considering the way in which the layering is dynamic will indicate how well the chip can do with out problems.
So all in all it looks like indeed Intel will right now be looking to offer you as much as you want without virtually any Technological restrictions and to bode well for future development costs when moving past more standard fabrication processes.
Yes Intel want now to sell you more chips than ever before and what you are seeing is just the beginning. So indeed I do want to play old classic games on my new washing machine and hook in my microwave so that i can get the 3D experience on my kitchen screen.
Mark my words indeed I do and I don't think Microsofts current approach would sell the most intel ect chips for the coming manufacturing needs That I don't.
Hey If I'm Not mistaken didn't Intel start by making SRAM chips well Intel I want!!! some yes I do and I want that washing machine + that new set of robot toys and wall painters ect ect so lets get down to business.