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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 223.81+4.5%3:52 PM EST
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (85763)7/25/2002 4:45:43 PM
From: hmalyRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
Jozef Re...A tiny bit of a performance benefit will come from these special cases, but mainly from doubling the number integer registers (in addition to doubling their size), which helps IPC a lot. Doubling the number of registers cuts down on number of trips to L1, L2 or memory.<<

Which is as I figured. So the guy writing the story doesn't know what he is talking about. And how many salesclerks do? That is the point. Being 64 bits, instead of 32, and having almost double the IPC, it is likely that a lot of people will assume a 64 bit computer does twice as much per clock, and not associate mhz with P4 mhz, but rather feel the P4 is inferior because it is only 32 bits, instead of 64.
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