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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (135318)	5/17/2001 3:43:15 AM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (1) of 186894

<Hard to believe they actually designed that feature into the chip. I wonder if they really never intended for P4 to be on .18um but AMD forced their hand.> No Willy was designed for .18um. The design started in early 1994 when, if memory serves me well, Intel was on 0.65um and transitioning to 0.35, so the original plan was to release Willy on 0.25, but then it slipped to .18um. They started with a trace cache and hyper-long pipeline idea but then realized that IPC was bad because of cash miss and branch mispredict penalties, so they double-pumped ALUs to improve IPC. IPC still sucks, but now they also have a scalability and power dissipation problem. It is a broken design even without Rambus. Intel is doomed. Kap

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