Not Shipping for Revenue Yet
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007Barcelona is not shipping for revenue yet.
Production wafers are out, and Barcelona is on track to ship in August.
Archive for July, 2007
FB-DIMMs to not Affect Performance as Much
Sunday, July 15th, 2007The upcoming Intel chipset for dual-processor servers goes by the name of San Clemente. The platform is known as Cranberry Lake.
San Clemente is supposed to use registered DIMMs, RDIMMs, rather than fully-buffered DIMMs, FBDIMMs. With the new architecture, “FB-DIMM does not affect server performance as much as it used to”.
Nehalem shall feature on-die memory controllers. The memory controller shall move from the chipset to the CPU die itself. AMD has been using an IMC since 2003.
Sun and Intel use FBDIMMs.
FBDIMMs consist of a printed circuit board + DDR2 chips + advanced memory buffer (AMB). The main difference bertween FBDIMMs and RDIMMs is that FBDIMMs use an AMB whereas RDIMMs a registered IC.
It Takes Years to Make a Driver
Monday, July 9th, 2007One of the biggest challenges Intel faces in bringing its discrete graphics chip to life is in developing drivers for the hardware. It “takes years to make a driver”.
Intel is said to have over 75% more engineers devoted to the discrete graphics chip than worked on NVIDIA’s current reigning generation of graphics.
Even so, Intel may not succeed its first time. You “don’t make money on the first chip”.
