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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94092)2/18/2000 1:15:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar  Read Replies (2) of 1570917
 
Thread,

I was thinking about Athlon versus Willamette and wanted to make the following comment: Let's say that you had two processors with, for simplicity, only one integer pipe each and that their pipes are always full; one with a ten stage pipe operating at 1 GHz and one with a twenty stage pipe operating at 1.5 GHz. The ten stage pipe processor completes an instruction in ten cycles, at a rate of 100 million instructions per second. The twenty stage processor completes an instruction in 20 cycles, at a rate of 75 million instructions per second. So, even with a 50% higher clock speed, the 20 stage processor is only 75% as efficient as the ten stage processor.

It seems that Willamette will need all of its wiz-bang features to compete with a 1.2 GHz Mustang (enhanced core Athlon).

In the workstation and server markets, Mhz alone will not sell. And, I do not see Willamette being pushed into the mass consumer market until Intel migrates to 0.13u.

Pravin.
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