“Bean knowledge” originated from Japanese is a kind of knowledge that is rare in life, a kind of alternative knowledge. It is optional, as long as you know it, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know it.
Although in hindsight, this x86 processor duo at the end of the twentieth century seems a bit boring, and even the whole process looks more and more funny, but it also fully shows that even if the x86 instruction set is rotten and nothing There is no reason to find that the huge shipments in the personal computer market can still support the most advanced process technology and sophisticated x86 processor micro-architecture. Of course, the premise is that you must have that book survive in the market in advance.
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AMD launched the Athlon processor with K7 core (0.25 µm process) on June 23, 1999. It had a 600MHz clock speed that surpassed Intel Pentium III from the beginning, giving AMD finally a weapon ahead of Intel, and also allowing 1GHz, the “hero sees The goal of “similarly same” has officially surfaced. The irony is that the “RISC gods” who logically enjoy the advantages of the instruction set architecture can only watch the show by the side this time, watching the “uncultured” x86 processor duo desperately running forward .
In this clock war, Intel and AMD are still losing. Even if there is no actual product that can be launched, it is always possible to do a “technical concept demonstration”, right? Because of this, the x86 duo staged a series of mutual barrel dramas at the end of the 20th century. The two sides went back and forth, which can be said to be “you punch me, I kick you, you bite me, I stab you The fierce confrontation of “one knife”, but consumers still can’t see the actual marketed products for a long time.
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October 13, 1998: AMD released 0.25 µm process Athlon samples at the Autumn Microprocessor Forum, clocked at 500MHz.
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February 23, 1999: Intel announced the 0.25 µm process Pentium III “through super cooling means”, with a clock speed of 1002MHz.
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April 29, 1999: AMD also produced a display with a clock frequency of 1GHz in the same way, and the manufacturing process was still 0.25 µm.
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October 25, 1999: Intel Pentium III officially entered the 0.18 µm process, with a maximum clock speed of 733MHz.
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November 29, 1999: Changed to AMD Athlon and entered the 0.18 µm process, with a maximum clock speed of 750MHz.
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December 12, 1999: Intel Pentium III reaches 800MHz.
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January 6, 2000: AMD made persistent efforts to demonstrate 1GHz technology with a 0.18 µm process, and released 800MHz Athlon on the same day.
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February 7, 2000: With the completion and opening of AMD’s new fab Fab30 in Germany, AMD also demonstrated a 1100MHz sample with a 0.18 µm process and copper wires.
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February 11, 2000: AMD Athlon arrives at 850MHz.
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February 20, 2000: Intel released a 1.5GHz 0.18 µm process Pentium 4 sample at the spring IDF (Intel Developer Forum).
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March 6, 2000: AMD officially announced and shipped the 1GHz Athlon. (God knows how much)
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March 8, 2000: Intel officially released the 1GHz Pentium III, but claimed that it was the winner of the clock war because “shipping started a week ago.” (Who knows when exactly you will ship)
Seeing this, everyone Keke probably has an expression of looking at the rotten apple on his face, imagining the “grand occasion” of this boring competition more than 20 years ago.
Here are some additional “milestones” for 2GHz and beyond:
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August 13, 2001: Intel demonstrated a 2GHz 0.18 µm process Pentium 4 at Siggraph, a major event in the computer graphics industry.
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August 27, 2001: Intel officially released the 2GHz Pentium 4, and it took two weeks to grab it.
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August 28, 2001: Only one day away, the “super-cooled” 3.5GHz 0.13 µm process Pentium 4 was demonstrated at the autumn IDF.
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February 26, 2002: Intel demonstrated a 4GHz 0.13 µm process Pentium 4 at the spring IDF.
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August 21, 2002: AMD released the 2GHz Athlon-XP.
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November 14, 2002: Intel’s 0.13 µm process Pentium 4 reaches 3GHz.
After that, there was nothing to talk about, because for the next four years, AMD K8 crushed Intel Pentium 4. Oh yes, on April 10, 2006, AMD Opteron reached 3GHz.
So, when did the “RISC gods” come to 1GHz?
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Alpha: 2001. (21264C, 0.18 µm process)
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MIPS: 2003. (R16000, 0.11 µm process)
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PA-RISC: 2003. (PA-8800, 0.13 µm process, dual core)
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Power: 2001. (Power4, 0.18 µm process, dual core)
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SPARC: 2001. (UltraSPARC III Cu, 0.13 µm process, copper conductors)
I hope that the above “bean knowledge” can make Keke feel that “life is enriched”, and I wish you all a happy day for Keke.
