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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: kash johal who wrote (94716)2/23/2000 12:25:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) of 1575355
 
RE:"It is inconcievable that Intels design folks would have designed a mediocre FPU."

Is it possible that Intel designed Willy...to...
1. Scale at all costs even with certain trade offs that can be made up for...
2. If the the FPU suffers a little we'll make it up with an SSE type set of instructions?
3. Create benchmarks that emphasize integer...special instructions etc.

Something tells me Intel had to make some trade offs to get the Willy to scale...?
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