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To: Joe NYC who wrote (169986)8/25/2002 1:35:53 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 186894
 
Apparently, Intel fixed something in the P4 FPU, or that's what people speculate.

Thanks for the link Joe, I hadn't seen that before. If this is true, then it won't be limited to the 2.8GHz part. The new stepping will eventually make it's way across the entire NorthWood product line as the old stepping(s) get flushed out.

Remembering back to AMD's claims that Hammer would be the fastest processor in the world upon introduction (and still to this day refusing to answer the question "fastest at what?"), we have to wonder just what AMD thought they'd be competing against, and when that comparison was intended to be made. There was no NorthWood and it's 512K L2 cache. No 533MHz FSB. No hyperthreading. No 1066MHz RDRAM and no design tweaks like the one just described.
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