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Are there only two chip manufacturers now?

Transmeta Crusoe chips were used in some thin clients (teminals with no HDD that run citrix) until very recently.

SGS-Thomson actually made a Cyrix 6x86 clone CPU back in the socket 7 days.
 
ARM/RISC CPUs although they don't run the x86 instruction set - are very powerful, low power consumption beasties... unfortunatly they seem to be being designed now for embedded mobile applications... one of these running at 1+gig would probably mop the floor with any conroe... been awhile since I played with them so my stats could be out, but I think that would be equivalent to a P4 running at 8.5+GHz.
 
beast said:
How come the xbox, PS3 etc you only pay about £300 for graphics that Seem superior to PC's, yet to get anywhere near on a PC you have to spend over a thousand?!
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They sell them cheaper, because they gain their money back through software sales, why it costs so much more for 1 game on the consoles, than it's PC counterpart, as console owners have the added cost of liscense fee's.
So in effect, your continually paying for your console throughout it's life, which when added up, and depending how many games you buy per year, can work out significantly more than a top range graphics card :)
 
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Also consoles are designed almost exclusively for one purpose and in actual raw power you might be surprised how weak some of them are compared to a "real" PC.

It also has the added advantage that developers know exactly what hardware is in the machine and can design accordingly, if they wrote PC games optimised for every system they could play it on, it would A: take forever and B: allow us to play much better looking, smoother games.
 
Big.Wayne said:
Oh yeah, the VIA EPIA!

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Lol check out that chipset cOOling! :eek: :D :cool:
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Where does the RAM go? :p
 
Although it isn't x86, Sun still make the SPARC line, and Fujitsu still make licenced versions of SPARC as well.

IBM still make the POWER line for their large servers too.
 
sargatanas said:
Where does the RAM go? :p
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It uses laptop style ram in that slot next to the ethernet connector... unless thats for the wireless module and the ram is under the heatsink somewhere?
 
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I use Sun kit professionally and they have fantastic chips like the Niagara UltraSPARC T1 which can run 32 simultaneous threads. Although it only runs at a maximum of 1.2GHz, for Java or http serving there is little that can compete.

There's a lot of computer world outside of the Intel/AMD X86 corner.
 
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