Intel's future Xeons to share sockets
Why Is line width such a big deal? #
Posted Saturday 14th February 2009 00:07 GMT
The limitations of heat management control the top speed of any given die.
Making the lines smaller, means even smaller die, yet speed increases. Why?
The energy consumed by a device is needed to switch the interconnection wires from one state to the other. The thinner the wires, the less electrons must be driven.
paris because i do not want her thinner.nor faster. and tommorrow is my birthday.
Moving the memory controller off the CPU chip? #
Posted Monday 16th February 2009 05:42 GMT
I'm curious, what do you think is the logic behind that move? I could imagine it might perhaps be advantageous for gaming machines, but for servers...?
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