Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Intel is a past master of moving functional blocks from one product to another, even across families: if you look at the MMX block in the XScale processor so equipped, you'd be hard put to see any differences with the MMX block in the Pentium.
[October 17, 2003, 16:25 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Inside Intel's Prescott
Talkback Yes there are new instructions but as pointed out they will make litte or no difference pretty much like MMX I guess. So Intel will squeeze 4 times as many chips out of each wafer which will reduce the cost of producing them.
About: Inside Intel's Prescott
[February 2, 2004, 10:31]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary - Holy Land Special
Blog Before that, the place was responsible for the Pentium MMX and, in 2001, Timna. "I only got five hours sleep last night," one UK journalist complains: I would have lynched him had more coffee not appeared.
[January 6, 2006, 17:40 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog But the truth is, I'm perfectly happy with my rather ancient DEC 200MHz Pentium MMX machine, bought for sixty quid second-hand and chuntering away quietly -- ok, not that quietly -- ever since. Friday
[August 10, 2001, 18:27 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
