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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (93431)2/16/2000 12:20:00 AM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (1) of 1579785
 
<What are they calling the ALU? A bit shifter? I can guarantee that the control logic for the integer unit is not running at 3 GHz. The latch delays and clock skew would make that impossible.>

I think you may have something here. They showed a 20-stage pipeline with a single execution stage. There is not much work that can be done in one clock at 3GHz. Maybe it is just logical and add operations that are double-pumped.

Kap
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