Intel Promises 20GHz by the end of 2006

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Intel Promises 20GHz by the end of 2006
Today Intel introduces a new turn on their roadmap, with the addition of Bumpless Build-Up Layer (BBUL) packaging technology.

This of course is not a revolution, since Intel has been working on this project for months (perhaps years), and only now we get a sneak peak. The new technology will allow Intel to reach the 1+ billion transistor mark, and clock the new chip at 20GHz. The 20GHz frequency number is completely theoretical, since transistor count does not directly mean higher clock speeds. More transistors will allow Intel to add on more execution units (more stages in a pipeline once again), and extra things which are in the works, but its still unclear how they can manage to pull off anywhere close to one billion transistors, with current manufacturing limits.

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And by the time we reach 2006 or 2007, Microsoft's Bloatware will have expanded to the point where it will _STILL_ run slower than molasses in January.

I still don't understand the overt bias against Microsoft products.  

Sure, Windows is bigger than the 1985 AmigaOS.  If you want to compare apples to oranges, that's fine, but comparing Apples to Apples would be comparing the size of OS 3.9 to Microsoft DOS 6.2 with Windows 3.0.

Will someone please figure it out and stop with the whole "slow, bloated" crap?  If you integrated the exact same features and abilities in AmigaOS that are already present (and working) in Windows, then AmigaOS would be almost the same size.  Well admittedly not the same size, but it would be damned close.

I can hear you people whining about the imaginary "stability" of AmigaOS versus Windows, but that too is bullspit.  The last time I loaded AmigaOS 3.5 on a 1200 with an 060, it was rock stable.  I loaded a few apps such as a browser and stack (the absolute bare essentials) and it began crashing continuously.

My Windows box on the other hand, aside from one problem generated by my cable modem provider, hasn't needed a reboot for 89 days and I work on this machine continuously, 10 hours per day, 5 days per week.  Not to mention the gaming, mp3 creation, avi production, etcetera that I do after work.

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While I agree that Microsoft can produce "good" software, I have to agree with the 'bloatware' school of thought where computer power takes precedence over efficient programming. If money was invested instead in more efficient programming then we wouldn't see our computers going out of date in a couple of years.

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If money was invested instead in more efficient programming then we wouldn't see our computers going out of date in a couple of years.

Granted, but you wouldn't see millions employed in the computer industry, and you wouldn't see nearly the amount of software being written.  Need for faster hardware drives hardware sales, drives software development, drives employment, drives everything in the computer industry.