Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chic_hearne who wrote (109065)	8/31/2000 1:23:00 AM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Preaching to the choir on MHz... However, a CPU that is 30% faster than it was last week is a faster CPU... but you can't cut across architectures. Sure. However, an in-order processor such as Itanium clocked at 733 MHz with significant cache miss issues up against a 1.2 GHz seriously out-of-order IA32 CPU... well I don't care how well you try to sell me on EPIC it ain't cutting it. And yes, I have been reading Paul's lengthy explanations at www.realworldtech.com for quite some time. Does that make me an expert? Certainly not. That's why I have to cut and paste his critiques if given the chance ;-) "Basic logic would tell you the E10000 should be 166% faster than the S80 if you only look at the processors." No.. regarding tpmC there are a number of very good papers out there , key elements are L2 cache size, latency and bandwidth... these are issues everyone is aware of and Compaq/Digital has been studying these areas very much since 1996 as their Western Research web site notes. Here is one of the better papers that show how they are all related.. excellent piece: research.compaq.com and it points out why 21364 will be a beast until 21464 comes along to totally dominate. Rob