Re: TI-H: Re: Speedy Calc...
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Re: TI-H: Re: Speedy Calc...
Well said - and they are risc, and use copper insted of aluminum, and soon
SiGe instead of whatever silicon aditive intel uses
-----Original Message-----
From: Grant Stockly <gussie@alaska.net>
To: ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org <ti-hardware@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Saturday, December 05, 1998 11:49 PM
Subject: 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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