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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 217.91+0.9%Dec 5 9:30 AM EST

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To: combjelly who wrote (20186)11/22/2000 10:46:15 AM
From: jcholewaRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
> Yes, although most of those rumors were within the context of Hans DeVries' speculation on AMD patents that would
> allow the removal of a pipeline stage or two. I suspect that there just wasn't time to make those kind of changes,

Heh. Maybe they removed two pipeline stages and then added two pipeline stages. <g>

> but that leaves the possibility of a better branch prediction and/or hardware pre-fetch,
> which are buried quite so deep in the core.

Yeah. Let's hope that stuff is worth an interesting difference in performance. :)

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-JC
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