Pitou

[Nappe1]

Originally posted by Chrono_Wanderer
Does anoyone knows how many layers is the P chip/PCB is using? Just wondering.

8-layers for PCB.

only M knows chips layer amounts. and I don't think it matters much.

[ganyaik]

VigilAnt: Are you still verifying your infos or are you waiting for approval to publish them?

[Greebe]

only M knows chips layer amounts.

Try 7 layers

and I don't think it matters much.

Not at all

[RichL]

The information will no doubt be along soon™.

[Kurt]

Originally posted by RichL
The information will no doubt be along soon™.

"Real Soon Now™"

[chaoliang]

I'm searching hard for a right word to describe the current situation. Any suggestions?

[Slougi]

People waiting for something to happen? Angry mob gathering? REVOLUTION?!

[Hati]

desperate euphoria ?

[Neomagic_Twist]

Imminent ?

[Ssin]

What would be the use to have a big chip on small die? The longer the wires, the longer its gonna take for the informations to get through that wire... or so I've been told. It's the same thing for the Crays computers and that's why they have and odd circle form.. to shorten the wires and therefore keep the information at pace with the processors. It's no good to have a Porsche if you're taking longer routes to go from home to work.

[R.Carter]

Has Pitou petered out?

[Prototype3a]

The reason the crays are designed that way (and the parhelia mem system too) is so that the information all arrives at each part of the system at the same time. It's not about speed, rather about keeping all the traces on the board/system the same length for a given bus. If the traces are not the same length then the information on each line of a multi line connection arrive at different times and messes up the entire system.

[Greebe]

@R.Carter

Has Matrox even announced a successor to Parhelia? Publically announced a roadmap? Nope, never have

(edit:learn howto spell Greebe)

[Wombat]

Ssin, you chose a particularly bad example by trying to use Cray to back up your argument.

Back when people bought Cray computers, Cray would send out an installation team on site. Once the equipment was on site, the installation team would connect the components together using <I>precise</I> lengths of wire. The lengths were NOT the shortest length possible - they were measured out to lengths so that integer numbers of bits would fit on the wire at the same time, since the WIRE was pipelined delay, and signal delay was tightly controlled.

[rubank]

Originally posted by chaoliang
I'm searching hard for a right word to describe the current situation. Any suggestions?

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