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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (53210)3/22/1999 5:26:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1582943
 
Ten,

Scumbria, first of all, why is the "massively parallel" paradigm going to work for the K7 and the Alpha, but not for Intel processors?

And second, what makes you assume that Willamette will have nothing more than just extra execution units?

I don't believe that massively parallel will work for anyone. I have often predicted that K7 integer performance will be not much greater than PIII and K6-3 performance.

System performance is constrained by factors which the CPU has no control over, i.e. DRAM and I/O latency/bandwidth. Until someone comes up with a different paradigm than the standard Von Neumann architecture, there isn't much you can to to speed up the integer performance of a microprocessor.

Scumbria
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