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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (33239)6/12/1998 10:34:00 PM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1573201
 
Re: "You are usually more up-to-date than this post indicates. Do some reading on the subject."

Think about it Pravin, currently Pentium II processors are within a hare's breath of Alpha in integer performance, the FPU trails largely due to the need to remain compatable with the x86 FPU standard. With Intel's process technology, they could have done a YAR (Yet another Risc). and been at or near the top in all aspects of CPU performance. That was a no brainer. I don't think Intel has invested many $Billions and spent ~5 years to end up with less than they could have had with a RISC alternative to x86 with far less cost and much shorter design cycle time. Years ago the i860 was at the head of the pack in FPU performance. Intel has been doing RISC with the i860 & i960 for years and in fact the i960 was the first superscaler processor about 5 years ago. Intel chose a new direction instead. Why? To come in second to a RISC design? I don't think so.

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