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To: Scumbria who wrote (84445)12/31/1999 1:22:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573092
 
SCUMbria - Re: 'Doesn't the Sony Playstation II EMOTION CPU chip occupy MORE THAN TWICE the real estate of a Coppermine ?
It also has more compute power than a Coppermine.
In my original note I was referring to very low cost embedded cores which occupy about 10% of the silicon area, but perform more than 50% as fast as top of the line desktop processors."

As you noted, you were wrong.

Paul



To: Scumbria who wrote (84445)12/31/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: tejek  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1573092
 
In my original note I was referring to very low cost embedded cores which occupy about 10% of the silicon area, but perform more than 50% as fast as top of the line desktop processors.

Scumbria, assuming this statement is true, why don't Intel and AMD go this route as opposed to coming up with an Athlon or a cumine? In addition when everyone refers to real estate is that an indication of the physical dimensions of the chip?

Thanks.

ted


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