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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (123392)8/31/2000 2:23:34 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) of 1570796
 
Petz, the P4, while just coming to market, isn't exactly a new design. It was first scheduled to ship in '99, I think, and I assume most of the design predates the mhz war of the past year or so.

I don't know, but I'd also assume most of the marketing netb**s** got appended at the end. The one thing that's a real head scratcher is putting this double-clocked alu in the middle of the ultra deep pipeline, where it seems to have a good chance of holding down the maximum clock speed for at best marginal performance enhancement. I'd assume that was a pure engineering decision too, if Intel lets marketroids make architectural decisions like that, they're really hosed.

Cheers, Dan.
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