Re: TI-H: Re: Speedy Calc...
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Re: TI-H: Re: Speedy Calc...
>Well Intel may come out with something that has its own departments (like
>having a special processor just for games), but that is really up to the
>voodoo and 3dfx people... You won't see a receptionist or someone using
>their computer for internet research and spreadsheets taking up this
>technology. That is a huge size of the computer population, so it would only
>catch on to people that really play with their puters. Unless, that is, the
>internet researcher decides to use Chrome or Spreadsheets become so
>advantageous that you would actually need to do anything like that. We will
>see.
Thats hard to see... One of the reasons is pricing. Take the PPC
processors and Intel processors as an example.
Hardly anyone used the PPC processors and everyone used the Intel processors.
The PPC processor 300MHz used to be $700. The Intel processor used to be
$400 for 300MHz.
Now things have changed and more new computers are using the PPC chips.
Because of that they are much cheeper.
For intel, it is cheeper to impliment the instructions and features into
every single processor than to spend the time and money to develop a new
line and try to sell two separate processors...
I guess I realy don't undestand what you were trying to say, but if you
meant just add a few instructions that would help gamers to the PII chip
and add afew instructions to help servers, intel would do that.
There has to be a large market demand for any new chipset to come out. In
the case of the MMX, all that realy was an old FPGA chip that intel
engineers wasted spare time on.
Grant
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