<img src="http://www.sweclockers.com/img/ico_note.gif"><b class="red">Intel roadmap</b> <small class="small">Skrivet Fredag, 4 April, 2003 av <a href="mailto:herman@sweclockers.com">Herman</a><br /></small>
Hårdvarusajten <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/1,3973,907915,00.asp">ExtremeTech</a> har fått tag i princip hela Intels roadmap för detta år och början på nästa. Informationen handlar bland annat om PCI Express, Intels processorkärna Tejas och HyperThreading. Blandad summerad information:<br><br><B>Tejas</B><br>Processorkärnan som ska ersätta kommande Prescott, ska komma i mitten på 2004. Tejas kommer använda sig av LGA-förpackning (Land Grid Array) och kommer utnyttja Sockel775. Maxfrekvensen på Tejas sägs vara 5 GHz.<br><br><I>A direct socket loading technique, similar to a waffle iron, traps the LGA package inside a "socket body stiffener" and prevents it from breaking contact with the motherboard. The design also insulates the processor itself from potential damage from the heat sink. If a user aligns the processor correctly -- the "keying" mechanism to prevent the processor from being misaligned hasn't been passed along to OEMs -- upgrades should take place in a matter of seconds, by snapping the load plate over the top of the processor package.</I><br><br><B>HyperThreading</b><br>HyperThreading ska implementeras i varje Pentium-processor. Intel kommer även sluta producera processorer som använder sig av en 400 Mhz systembuss (4*100 MHz QDR) i sommar. Det har gått rykten kring en teknologi som heter HyperThreading II, och enligt ExtremeTech så nämns inte detta någonstans i roadmapen.<br><br><I>Beginning with the 3.06-GHz Pentium 4, hyperthreading will slowly make its way down the processor food chain into the cheaper mainstream segments. Hyperthreading uses tread-level parallelism to fill in some of the gaps in a processor bus, when a processor is waiting for data, making the processor more efficient. However, few applications have been developed for the technology.</I><br><br><b>Grantsdale</b><br>En moderkortkrets från Intel. Kommer använda nya PCI-standarden PCI Express, kommer troligen har Sockel775. Grantsdale stödjer DDR333 och DDR400-minne, har 4 minnesplatser för totalt 4 GB minne. Det pratas även om att implementera stöd för DDR-2.<br><br><I>Grantsdale will likely be Intel's most significant chipset revision in almost a decade, hearkening back to chipsets like the Opti 4165 and Intel Saturn, which helped usher in the PCI bus in 1995; and the Intel 440LX, Intel's first AGP-enabled chipset, which launched in 1997. Meanwhile, Intel's OEMs have asked the company for its "Granite Peak" initiative, which limits the number of driver revisions to one every six months, making the launch of each new chipset even more significant.</I><br><br>Mycket intressant information om vad som skall komma. Läs mer hos <a href="http://www.extremetech.com/article2/1,3973,907915,00.asp" target="_top" >ExtremeTech.</a><p>
