WinHEC 2005 - Keynote and Day 1
by Derek Wilson & Jarred Walton on April 26, 2005 4:00 AM EST- Posted in
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Day One Conclusion
That takes care of the major talks of day one. There were other interesting things that we saw on the showroom floor, including working servers running the 1.72 billion transistor Monticeto processors (Itanium 2). We'll try to get some better shots of the setup tomorrow, but suffice it to say the die size is HUGE - even in comparison to the already rather large Smithfield die.
So far, everyone is putting on a good front for the XP-64 launch. We'll try to see how it really stacks up in our own analysis soon. Stay tuned.
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nastyemu25 - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
uh, "readily available"Viditor - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
A quick note:"and with the largest readily available DIMMs currently coming in at 2 GB in size"
I believe that Samsung, AMD and MSoft were showing 4GB Registered Dimms at the show...
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Shinei - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
What makes Microsoft think they know how to use video card memory better than the hardware creators and their respective driver teams? If their memory management in Windows XP is any indication, I imagine everyone will need 1536MB video cards just to play Half-Life 1... And no, that's not a typo.AtaStrumf - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
he, he, HEC = JOKE in my languageThere's your explanation Kristopher ;-)
KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
Who wrote those MS slides!Page 1 "An" Historical... ????
Page 6 "Compute" Cluster Edition....
Usually its bad to get the slides wrong on Day 1 of your own event!
Kristopher
Icehawk - Tuesday, April 26, 2005 - link
I'm up too early!