``Intel is readying a line of consumer electronics chips based on the IA-32 architecture, the design underlying the vast majority of Intel`s desktop, notebook and server processors,``
``These chips will likely run at lower speeds, contain a slower bus or sport a smaller cache--a pool of memory inside the processor--than their desktop or notebook relatives, as a way to reduce power consumption and costs. Otherwise, they are likely to be somewhat similar. Intel has used this method in the past to break into new markets.``
http://news.com.com/Intel+devising+chip+line+for+consumer+electronics/2100-1006_3-5437852.html?tag=nl
``The skinny on Banias
While word of Banias` speeds has leaked out, much of the technology behind the chip, which was designed in Israel, remains under wraps. The chip will include a cache--an internal reservoir of memory for rapid data access--but the size is unknown. Krewell predicts it will be at least 512KB but could be as high as 1MB of some versions of Banias.``
http://news.com.com/Intels+Banias+Not+built+for+speed/2100-1001_3-948791.html?tag=nl
Fish & Moore ....32 bit CPU/DRAM (310 microprocessor) combo...Monolithic computer...with Column latch architecture.
closest prior art to Fish and Moore was INMOS transputer...similar strategy, but at much slower speed and without the performances benefits inherent in the microprocessor 310.
Intel wants to shrink down its 32 bit architecture for CE....it`s not all about the clock.
Microprocessor 310 is patented in detail....
doni