SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  
To: Mani1 who wrote (93515)2/16/2000 4:46:00 AM
From: Process Boy   of 1575993
 
Mani - <I am not a EE and I know little about these stuff. I just made an observation on that exchange.>

As for my responses to kap at the time, they were rather cryptic in nature. I had only heard that the ALU would be running at twice the base frequency.

I assumed he was trying to pump me for detail I could not disclose until today. BTW, I don't know any more than what was disclosed today on the ALU, and now after Scumbria's rant I have questions on it myself. Maybe "double pumped" is a better term than 2X clock speed? I really don't know.

Anyway, I in turn was trying to extract from him in a round about way to spit out what he thought he knew. After I could see this was getting nowhere, I quit responding to the thread topic, even when he made subsequent predictions at a later date. He never did say the ALU would be running at 2x base frequency, and instead came up with FPU at 1/2 frequency, something I had and have not heard at all.

I don't know what good all this explanation is. I do remember being quite perturbed that kap as a now non-Intel employee had seemed to catch wind, at least in principle if not accurately, a feature which I was told was highly confidential until the demo. These things happen; still bugs me.

PB
Report TOU ViolationShare This Post
 Public ReplyPrvt ReplyMark as Last ReadFilePrevious 10Next 10PreviousNext  

HomeMailHotSubjectMarksPeopleMarksKeepersSettings
Terms Of UseContact UsCopyright/IP PolicyPrivacy PolicyAbout UsFAQAdvertise on SI
© 2025 Knight Sac Media.  Data provided by Twelve Data, Alpha Vantage, and CityFALCON News