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To: Ali Chen who wrote (100715)	3/29/2000 12:37:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573029

Ali, Details of Williamette microarchitecture posted: ftp://download.intel.com/ial/home/sp/idf/dtps01_ps.pdf_ This is from recent IDF. Any comments? I looked over the slides. The double pumped ALU looks better than expected. Someone posted to me several weeks ago that add/subtract take 1-1/2 cycles, but that does not appear to be the case. The ALU can do forwarding from clock edge to clock edge, and can also forward data from a load to the ALU on half cycle boundaries. This will improve performance considerably. Willy is going to be a very good CPU. However, one advantage that Athlon has is that it will be moved into faster processes more rapidly, reducing the GHz delta between the two processors. Scumbria