2007-03-09: Email sucks
"What does this have to do with microprocessor design?", you might ask. Well, it has to do with not finding as much time as you'd like for microprocessor design. I've been battling an overwhelming amount of incoming email for this entire decade. Then I saw a report recently on ABC's World News Tonight about a 12-step solution from Marsha Egan. I'm on Step 9 and I can tell you that it's working already. Marsha Egan is my hero. It's the best $36 I ever spent.
2007-03-09: POWER5+ closes in slightly
A SPECfp_base2006 result was published in March by Bull SAS that shows POWER5+ improving slightly on that speed metric to 12.9. However, a published result from last September by Hewlett-Packard Company proves that Dual-Core Intel Itanium 2 9050 is still 34% faster than POWER5+.