Beyond Gigahertz: Fall Intel Developer's Forum 2005
Tags: Apple, Intel, Microprocessors, Marketing, IDF
Today, I leave for the Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco. Speculation is that Intel is finally dumping gigahertz as their primary metric of performance. What will they substitute? No one really knows yet. The obvious metric for portable computing devices, namely instructions per watt, is too geeky for public consumption. And artificial benchmarks have been tried by companies like AMD and Apple, but they have never caught on either.
Regardless, we'll find out tomorrow what Intel's new architecture looks like and how they will bring it to market. Look for details and analysis about 3 pm EDT.
Today, I leave for the Intel Developer's Forum in San Francisco. Speculation is that Intel is finally dumping gigahertz as their primary metric of performance. What will they substitute? No one really knows yet. The obvious metric for portable computing devices, namely instructions per watt, is too geeky for public consumption. And artificial benchmarks have been tried by companies like AMD and Apple, but they have never caught on either.
Regardless, we'll find out tomorrow what Intel's new architecture looks like and how they will bring it to market. Look for details and analysis about 3 pm EDT.
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