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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (20296)	11/23/2000 1:43:36 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) of 275872

<Jim: The P4 seems an odd chip> Warning. WAGs ahead! Certainly wasn't designed as an all 'round chip... Intel apparently decided that they needed to get away from x87 to maximize performance. Due to what you could well call arrogance, they sacrificed x87 performance. Intel decided that they needed to maximize bandwidth to maximize performance. Due to what you could well call arrogance, they decided to not to hedge their bet on memory type. The way I read this whole situation (and others would likely know significantly better), Intel simply didn't expect anyone (AMD) to be competitive when P4 launch time came around. This meant that they believe they could concentrate on improving performance for "future" applications, while sparing relatively few resources on "legacy" programs. Where the double-clocked ALU+some_more figures in all this, I have no clue. -fyo

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