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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Epinephrine who wrote (93844)2/17/2000 1:51:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1572382
 
Epinephrine,

Given that claim, Do you think that the strategy in general (independant of Willamette's actual microarchitecture) of relying so much on ISSE2 rather than other core enhancements is a wise decision, (I apologize if I am pushing the issue and you would still like to defer commentary until further details come out but I am just wanting your educated speculation WRT current information.)

I would guess that whatever ISSE2 is, it probably involves a lot of parallelism. Many floating point computations involve matrix transformations which can take advantage of a very wide datapath and parallelism, so it sounds like they did the right thing.

This is purely speculative about the architecture however.

Scumbria
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