[CCID News] "Forbes" published on October 6th published an article pointed out that major companies in the autumn processor design forum in the recently held have shown the latest products and design plans, in this conference, multi-core Technology has become the focus of the market.
In the annual autumn processor forum, major companies have discussed their own research and design chip products, and predicting the trend of future processor products, various signs indicate that multi-core chip products have been Became the future path of the processor product.
On this forum, most companies have announced their own multi-core chip product plans and related information. Comparison, those companies that do not involve this area have become a few. There is no doubt that multi-core chip products that are positioned in the next few years will gradually begin to play the mainstream position on the market.
Since the heat dissipation of the chip product can be controlled within a reasonable range, the method of integrating two or more kernels on a piece of chip has become a shortcut to improve the performance of the chip product.
Take the market operation in the window operating system and the personal computer and server products, AMD indicates that it is positioned at the ATHLON chip product line of the personal computer and the server's Opteron chip plan to launch a dual core version for a certain time next year. . Kevin Maxie, AMD, Opteron Product Line, said in the middle of next year, the company is expected to become the first pioneer in the market to launch the double-neutronuclear server chip. The same thing may happen in a personal computer chip market, but time is postponed until next year.
It further shows that the new chip product will increase by about 205 million transistors, which is more than 100 million more than this generation of Opteron, and will use a 90-nanometer manufacturing technology called "insulator silicon wafer", this technology Authorized by IBM's research and development, AMD is authorized.
At the same time, AMD's old opponent Intel did not release a new model of chip on this forum, but Intel said it will officially launch its own dual kernel product next year.
However, when AMD and Intel's two old opponents are opening the future of the double kernel chip, another company in another company in the supply market seems to find another way to improve product performance outside the double kernel.
TRANSMETA is also a CTO David-Detz description of the company's next-generation processor product in the forum, code Efficeon 2, raised from 1GHz from 1GHz than the previous generation of new types of chips, and The amount of product is high and the power consumption has a great progress. When the product is running in a state of 1GHz, the power consumption of the chip has only 3 watts, which is less than half of the old model foot. This is undoubtedly very attractive for laptop products like Sharp and Fujitsu. The last two have always chose Transmeta as a supplier of laptop chip products. At the same time, like OQO and Vulcan Ventures. The industry is also committed to producing its own portable personal computer products, naturally, the new type of Transmeta's new type of chip can meet their requirements.
However, the company's leadership believes that the double core does not bring substantial improvement in performance, and this is more fully in notebook products, so it seems that it seems to be in the expectation of Transmeta's dual-core chip products. unrealistic.
"I want to play a certain role in some server products, but I will not be a wise choice for laptop users." He said further, "Just as I need some milk, so I will I will drive the supermarket not far away, but even if my speed is raised to twice, I can't save too much time. In fact, users are more important in the process of using laptops, rather than too outstanding. Performance, according to the investigation, the chip of the laptop is not full of capacity in most cases, so the double kernel chip is very difficult in the notebook market. "
However, AMD's Maggs has a completely different opinions. He insists that the dual-core chip product will create a new era of product in notebook markets for AMD, but it does not respond directly to the argument of Transmeta's spokespersons. "I think the notebook market will be the last fortress that needs to capture the double core chip product." Mark said.
Other companies that publish multi-core chip products on the forum include Freescale Semiconductor, as well as mobile giants Motorola, Sun, and Fujitsu, the latter launched double core chip code is Ultrasparc IV .
At the same time, California, a company named Cavium NetWorks disclosed a anti-virus processor product called Octeon, which is mainly to control spam and Trojan viruses. According to the range of use, this series of products will integrate with different quantities of cores from two to sixteen, and its product design technology is authorized from MIPS Technology, which is a high-tech semiconductor company.
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