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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (58327)5/16/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (3) of 1574848
 
Chuck,

I have always wondered how AMD is being able to clock its shallow pipeline parts within a speed grade of Intel's deep pipeline parts.

A deep pipeline is only effective if it is evenly balanced. The single cycle L1 access of P6 indicates to me that the pipeline is not balanced. Chip MHz can be no faster than the slowest stage of the pipe.

In contrast, the 21164 runs at 700MHz in a 0.35u process.

Scumbria
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