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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (93431)2/16/2000 12:52:00 AM
From: Saturn V  Read Replies (2) of 1570745
 
Ref : 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.

The integer performance may not be as high as some people might expect, but definitely better than you think.

I am quoting the Willamette programers manual.
"very low latency integer operations can be completed at a rate higher than the processor clock frequency." " Floating point operations on Willamette will achieve a higher level than P6 when scaled to the same clock frequency".

Unfortunately Intel is not disclosing everything.I still think that the FPU runs at higher than the processor rate, but I will have to wait it out.

You may deny the Willamette claims. But unfortunately for AMD , Willamette is here sooner than we all expected. And if the design verification looks OK, the Intel Fab Capacity will finally be unleashed. The Coppermine story will not be repeated. (Unless the Willamette die size is >2X Coppermine size).
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