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To: Charles R who wrote (43528)	6/9/2001 3:53:02 AM
From: kapkan4u	of 275872

<The cutover from Thunderbird to Palomino should be about the same speed as previous two cutovers based on K7 core. If not, there is very likely a problem.> Not so. The differences between K75 and T-bird were very minor -- the addition of the L2. Not even speed-path work was done. On the other hand, the M-tang/Palomino core was completely redone with custom-designed logic for speed and short-circuit evaluations to minimize number of circuit switches and to save power. Also the drive strengths of non-critical path circuits were reduced to minimize power consumption. On top of that we have a bunch of new architectural features like PowerNow, SSE, HW prefetch and TLB improvements. Kap

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