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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Saturn V who wrote (74054)10/5/1999 9:21:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (2) of 1572641
 
Re: Gotta see it to belive it !"

Aren't the ALU units already 80 bits? (in pretty much any modern processor)

And Athlon already has a doubled (64 byte) cache line width and cache management architecture, so it might make some sense to call the current Athlon a hybrid 32/64 bit processor. We don't know what other parts of Athlon are already configured to support the transition to X86/64. It could be that the Sledgehammer design was the goal from the beginning, and Athlon is a partial implementation.

Dan
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