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To: Scumbria who wrote (13390)	10/12/2000 12:04:18 PM
From: sylvester80	Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, As usual, you are not saying anything new and I'm also wondering how long before the SI web gods put you in the penalty box with the personal attacks. I posted the same link here and I asked a question. As usual, you have nothing to contribute. Absolutely nothing. Why am I not surprised.

To: Scumbria who wrote (13390)	10/12/2000 12:11:24 PM
From: fp_scientist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Scumbria, Still confident about a late October tech rally? There are so many uncertainties in the market right now ... Earnings warnings, energy prices, turmoil in the Middle East ... It is hard to see how the NAZ can turn around and rally. If the NAZ May lows don't hold today, I think we are in for some trouble. I balanced my tech (AMD) position with gas and oil stocks, so I have not lost my shirt and should not complain too much. Regards, fp PS you were right about my October AMD calls couple of months ago. They will expired worthless.

To: Scumbria who wrote (13390)	10/12/2000 5:24:03 PM
From: EricRR	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Musings of a wishful droid... ...We know more about Willy now. 9 of 20 stages running at X2 clock speed? A quick ramp to 2GHz in Q2 2001? And all at 0.18 microns. HMMMMM. That's mighty fast. And doubly so. After all the core will allegedly be running at 4GHz! And all at 0.18 microns. And all without Cu. And still we get "low" IPC? We know that there is a bunch of "funny stuff" going on in the ALU core, and no one is exactly sure how it works. But we are supposed to believe that the FPU and MMX and SSE2 are going to go to 2GHz on 0.18? And why would intel design 9 stages to go at x2 in the first place? This obviously is the limiting speedpath. If there wasn't this double pumping, the chip no doubt could go even higher. Wouldn't that be great for marketing? After all, marketing is what intel is best at. Why make it hard to ramp up speed at a given "marketable" speed? And I remember rumors about Willy just reusing the P3's decoder, before the trace cache. According to Han's most recent update, the decoder is "decoding" one instruction every clock. By implication, the P3's current decoder is capable of much faster operation. Also, Willy's FSB runs at 100MHz, which is quad pumped, and so called 400MHz by the marketing dept. AMD does the same with their double pumped FSB. Same with DDR and "800MHz" Rambus. But Intel's marketing dept has passed with Willy. No need to advertise the speed of the core, just call in the "Rapid Execution Engine." Average consumers will pass by, blissfully unaware that the core of their 1.5GHz CPU is really running at 3GHz. Perhaps it's all part of Intel's master plan. Perhaps all the benchmarks we've seen were dumbed down, and we are going to be blitzed by an awesome chip at launch. Perhaps all these rumors about low IPC, which remember started in Jan 2000, are sandbagging. I think its more likely that 1.5GHz is not that, but instead the average of 1GHz and 2GHz. Has Intel ever explicitly said that the ALU of a 1.5GHz is running at 3GHz?