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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 246.76-0.5%Nov 14 9:30 AM EST
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To: fyodor_ who wrote (33482)3/26/2001 10:11:30 AM
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"the Athlon sports the most primitive BPU of any even remotely competitive x86 CPU sold today"

But the question is whether or not improved branch prediction is worth it. The transistors required might yield a better IPC increase used somewhere else.
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