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To: Saturn V who wrote (93447)2/16/2000 1:20:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1570835
 
Saturn,

very low latency integer operations can be completed at a rate higher than the processor clock frequency

That is a far cry from the integer unit running at 2x the clock speed. It means that few simple integer calculations can run in a 20 stage pipe, instead of a 21 stage pipe. That is a whopping speedup of 5% for a few instructions.

I see why the designers argued with marketing. To describe this as a 3 GHz part would be a complete fraud.

Scumbria



To: Saturn V who wrote (93447)2/16/2000 3:08:00 AM
From: tejek  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1570835
 
(Unless the Willamette die size is >2X Coppermine size).

Saturn, what do you mean by that statement? Was die size a problem with cumine?

ted


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