🚀 go-pugleaf

Dmitriy Veremeev wrote:
> 
> nwe@ix.netcom.com(Sean C Peters) wrote:
> 
> >In <31ad9c57.10416878@news-win.rinet.ru> minister@rinet.ru (Dmitriy
> >Veremeev) writes:
> >>
> >>wally@nirvana.jsc.nasa.gov (Walter B Kulecz PhD) wrote:
> >>
> >>>In article <31ab1f2f.4414157@news-win.rinet.ru>, minister@rinet.ru
> >says...
> >>>>P5-200) and don't  bother about MMX AT ALL. Because the software
> >>>>support for MMX is MUCH more important than hardware implementation.
> >>>>Just like P5's and P6's new operands - they probably could speed up
> >>>>some applications, but nobody use them just not to do their code not
> >>>>capable of running on 486, P5 clones or something else. So even when
> >>>>MMX processors will be available, you won't be able to use their
> >>>>features - software companies shouldn't make software that wont work
> >>>>on 99% processors. It's a waste of money for them. And this
> >situation
> >>>>is going to continue for a couple of years. IMHO, of course.
> >>>>Sorry for poor English.
> >>>
> >>>I have to disagee here.  I expect the MMX to catch on and quickly
> >lead to a
> >>>situation analogous to floating point coprocessors.  An emulator
> >library is
> >>>written to support "old" hardware without MMX so software
> >auotmatically detects
> >>>MMX and uses it, otherwise it calls the library code to accomplish
> >the same
> >>>result (although slower).
> >>>
> >>>Anyone who runs real calculations (fft's, matrix algebra, etc)
> >doesn't consider
> >>>a machine without FP hardware (this has been true since the XT), so
> >people
> >>>serious about multimedia won't consider machine without MMX asuming
> >the
> >>>hardware actually delivers the improvements promised.  I expect it
> >will.
> >>>
> >>>Don't forget, AMD has licensed this from Intel already, Cyrix will
> >have to or
> >>>else modify its existing extensions to be compatable.
> >>>
> >>
> >>And, still there are very many programs that better use FPU, but can't
> >>just for case of CPU w/o FPU or with incompatible one.. So the same
> >>will be with MMX - there will be 5-7 applications supported it -
> >>probably XING, maybe something like Photoshop, etc... But only a few!
> >>
> >>BYE.
> >>Yours,
> >>LodeRunner. E-mail: minister@rinet.ru
> >
> >Unfortunatetly this whole disussion may be irrelevant as TI just
> >introduced a new technology.  The 0.18 Micron process.  It packs an
> >incredible 125 million transistors on one chip, making it possible to
> >put several boards, video, audio, hard drive, ram, etc. on to a single
> >chip.  I will post the newsfeed following.
> >
> 
> Well, it's not SO exciting since AFAIK PPro uses 0.25 (or will be
> using in the  near future) So that TI tech. is ~30% "better".
> Or did I understand it in a wrong way?
> BYE.
> Yours,
> LodeRunner (Dmitry Veremeev). E-mail: minister@rinet.ru

They were claiming 20x faster than the best processor today in 3 years. That would 
beat Moore's law prediction of 6-7 years by 3-4yrs. If they can accomplish what 
they announced it would be significant.