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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (93411)	2/16/2000 3:30:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571335

Ted, <Tenchusatsu, what would be the advantage of having one part of the chip running at one speed and another part at another speed?> I figure that we're pretty close to the maximum number of integer instructions that can be processed in one clock. So the only way you can increase the integer performance is to increase the clock frequency. But of course, traditionally when you speed up the clock, you speed up the whole chip, and just a few units can hold back the speed of the entire chip. So if integer logic is rather simple, why not speed up only that part of the chip, and let the rest of the chip run at normal frequency? Maybe one analogy would be speeding up the processor while the chipset and memory stays stuck at low speeds (because memory can't keep up with increasing processor speeds). Now, instead of speeding up the whole processor, why not speed up just a few parts? That's my two cents. Tenchusatsu