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To: Maverick who wrote (7362)	9/1/2000 10:49:19 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) of 275872

Hi all; Scumbria, Ali: Thought you might find this of interest from the previous post: Hammering Away at Intel's iTanium There are many reasons Intel is having trouble with iTanium performance, but the fundamental one is a design flaw. The iTanium "EPIC" approach to processor design is a greedy pig for memory bandwidth. What goes on inside the processor hasn't been a major limiting factor in PC performance for years; processors are way faster than the rest of the system they plug in to. With on-chip cache and clock multiplying, modern processors now run at about five times the rate of the motherboard they connect to. The real limiting factor is how fast the memory chips on that motherboard can feed instructions into (and accept results from) the processor's on-chip cache. (This is explained in detail in the articles I just linked to.) fool.com Somewhat ironic that it is an article at fool.com... -- Carl

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