Comments on: Intel 'Braidwood' chip targets snappier software

Intel will take another crack at flash memory-based acceleration with technology offered as an add-on to future chipsets.

[warpsix]

Lets put the operating system on a matching stick

[21st Hermit]

I'd buy one of those OS sticks.

[21st Hermit]

Awesome!!!! I've had my eye on Clarkdale for ~6-months and Braidwood just makes it that much better. All should fit nicely on a mini-ITX MB and soup-up my recent Atom 330 power sipper. I expect Clarkdale to double or triple the Atom's performance and use less power all the while.

[slickuser]

Looks like Arab Micro Devices just can't keep up with Intel releasing something
every quarter.

[timber2005]

Oh?
AMD demoed the first DirectX 11 GPU...
AMD just released a 6-core CPU

[slickuser]

dude, Intel doesn't make discrete GPU yet. And, AMD is late with 6 core. Intel Dunnington is a 6 core CPU released
in 2008

[tipoo_]

Dude, you gotta respect AMD. Intel's advertising budget alone is larger than AMD's entire business, yet AMD remains competitive to this day. So what if a 10x larger company releases products more often?


Besides, AMD will be releasing a 12 core CPU when Intel is scheduled to release their 8-core.

[slickuser]

AMD remains competitive? thats funny...

[pithenumber]

@slickuser
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

[codynews]

Intel has been way ahead since Harpertown came to smack the Opterons around.

[pithenumber]

way ahead in the workstation and low end server space you mean

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

[luke_marsh]

Yep That would run a Emulation,git Optimisation, and direct hardware access OS machine runer style boot loader very fast indeed but other than that would only be very marginal to using A SSD as your system drive in the first place so the degree interest in this technology would indeed be dependent on progress in the development of Root kernels for the purpose of Virtualisation and the ability to run optimised boots of mostly not visualised direct running machines from boot. Anyway seeming as we are talking about add other memory slots on the main board other than standard DRAM hows about A chip set that allows for a primary SRAM channel to Complement the slower DRAM Channels.
Put all the best of these words together add a high degree of cores and transputational capabilities + some freshly fabricated Coolant equipment and just how fast might that Frame rate of Crises fly.
Oh year!!

[luke_marsh]

The next Dilemma.
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.