How Many Processor Cores Are Enough?
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From: Dennis M. O'Connor on 13 Oct 2006 17:50 <kenney(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote ... > dmoc(a)primenet.com (Dennis M. O'Connor) wrote: > >> All the college freshman are discovering USENET. >> And I wonder, should I just kill-file the lot of them ? > > I apologise if I am telling someone how to suck eggs. Yeah, well, I may not have the illustrious track record of some of the posters here, but I have spent a few years being a microprocessor architect and micro-architect, during my 15 years at Intel Corporation -- Dennis M. O'Connor dmoc(a)primenet.com
From: Del Cecchi on 13 Oct 2006 20:37 "Dennis M. O'Connor" <dmoc(a)primenet.com> wrote in message news:1160776257.920094(a)nnrp1.phx1.gblx.net... > <kenney(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote ... >> dmoc(a)primenet.com (Dennis M. O'Connor) wrote: >> >>> All the college freshman are discovering USENET. >>> And I wonder, should I just kill-file the lot of them ? >> >> I apologise if I am telling someone how to suck eggs. > > Yeah, well, I may not have the illustrious track record of > some of the posters here, but I have spent a few years being > a microprocessor architect and micro-architect, during > my 15 years at Intel Corporation > -- > Dennis M. O'Connor dmoc(a)primenet.com I have seen a few architects that wouldn't know a transmission line if it bit them in the behind, over the years. Not to say that you are one of them, you seem to have a good circuit knowledge.
From: Dennis M. O'Connor on 14 Oct 2006 00:51 "Del Cecchi" <delcecchiofthenorth(a)gmail.com> wrote ... > "Dennis M. O'Connor" <dmoc(a)primenet.com> wrote ... >> <kenney(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote ... >>> dmoc(a)primenet.com (Dennis M. O'Connor) wrote: >>> >>>> All the college freshman are discovering USENET. >>>> And I wonder, should I just kill-file the lot of them ? >>> >>> I apologise if I am telling someone how to suck eggs. >> >> Yeah, well, I may not have the illustrious track record of >> some of the posters here, but I have spent a few years being >> a microprocessor architect and micro-architect, during >> my 15 years at Intel Corporation >> > I have seen a few architects that wouldn't know a transmission line if it > bit them in the behind, over the years. Not to say that you are one of > them, you seem to have a good circuit knowledge. Well, I know what I don't know, at least, and who to ask about it. But you can't architect buildings well without understanding a little about steels, and you can't achitect processors without understanding at least a little about semiconductors and the wires that connect them. You'v e got to at least know when to go ask an expert. -- Dennis M. O'Connor dmoc(a)primenet.com
From: Stephen Fuld on 14 Oct 2006 11:23 "Dennis M. O'Connor" <dmoc(a)primenet.com> wrote in message news:1160776257.920094(a)nnrp1.phx1.gblx.net... > <kenney(a)cix.compulink.co.uk> wrote ... >> dmoc(a)primenet.com (Dennis M. O'Connor) wrote: >> >>> All the college freshman are discovering USENET. >>> And I wonder, should I just kill-file the lot of them ? >> >> I apologise if I am telling someone how to suck eggs. > > Yeah, well, I may not have the illustrious track record of > some of the posters here, but I have spent a few years being > a microprocessor architect and micro-architect, during > my 15 years at Intel Corporation Just out of curiosity, can you explain the difference between the jobs "micprocessor architect" and "micro-architect", as it might appear that they are essentially the same thing? -- - Stephen Fuld e-mail address disguised to prevent spam
From: John Dallman on 14 Oct 2006 13:37
In article <Gh7Yg.271289$QM6.258623(a)bgtnsc05-news.ops.worldnet.att.net>, s.fuld(a)PleaseRemove.att.net (Stephen Fuld) wrote: > Just out of curiosity, can you explain the difference between the > jobs "micprocessor architect" and "micro-architect", as it might > appear that they are essentially the same thing? Well, yesterday, two Intel people whom I was having a 'phone conference with explained that XScale, Pentium 4 and Core 2 Duo are all separate "architectures", and that the fact that two of them run the same instruction set isn't particularly significant in that terminology, "because, at the hardware level, they're quite different". Personally, being a software person, I'd consider P4 and C2D to be significantly different implementations of the same basic architecture. However, that view probably isn't good for the egos of chip designers. --- John Dallman jgd(a)cix.co.uk "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a well-rigged demo" |