White Hot Components: Nathan Brookwood Insight 64

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Nathan Brookwood gets hot under the collar about the heat generated by CPUs..

Analyst firm Insight64, as its name implies, looks at the state of 64 bit processors in the marketplace, and principal analyst Nathan Brookwood discussed the relevancy of CPU heat issues to the white box industry, an issue that has yet to be properly addressed.

Here, he says, High-K gate dielectrics solve some problems, but create others. Intel has a 45nm solution, but the bad news is that it won't show up until 2007. What's A System Builder to Do Between Now and 2007? Keep the processor cool by any means necessary, as many THG readers know.

Also, 64 bit systems will be hot items in 2004 and that as system physical memory (DRAM) passes 4GB, users will want expanded virtual address capability. Eroding prices facilitate larger DRAM configurations. For example, the cost of 4 GB of DRAM memory has plummeted astronomically from $168,000 in 1991 to less than $500 in 2003. However, the desktop PC market is stagnant, while the mobile PC market is growing.

Users are now substituting "Desktop Replacements" (ie: notebooks) for desktop systems, wireless access is increasingly available and notebooks are fast enough for most mainstream applications.


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