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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 214.11+3.9%Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: Scumbria who wrote (13341)10/12/2000 9:59:21 AM
From: jcholewaRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
> Sounds like Dirk is keeping the lid on Intel-style dumb architectural decisions.
> AMD is taking the sensible approach with Mustang. They are increasing the pipeline depth, and cache size. This leads
> to a faster clock and a lower miss rate.

Are you certain about the pipeline stages being poofed up? I'm pretty sure I know at least one of the microarchitectural changes (yeah, it seems AS is wrong), but I haven't solidly heard about the pipeline.

> BTW: The P4 revelations from MPF make it sound less dumb than was originally advertised.

Ah. So you agree with Paul DeMone now? ;)

-JC
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