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To: EricRR who wrote (15558)	10/23/2000 11:53:23 AM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

What a tease. An article entitled "Mustang VS Pentium 4: Design Decisions" that says nothing about the Mustang until the end, where we get this. The Mustang cores should show the potential of this efficient architecture. The Mustang will achieve higher clock rates, lower power consumption, and better performance thanks to a better branch predictor. From an architectural point of view, it will be very interesting to compare the Mustang and the Pentium 4. If the Mustang proves to be a very strong contender to the Pentium 4, it will be clear that it is possible to build a high performance x86 CPU without the need for an extremely long pipeline. In that case, the enhanced Mustang core, will be substantially smaller than the Pentium 4 (with 256 KB L2-cache) and will show that AMD's engineers can do better than "toying with original architecture." aceshardware.com Sheesh. Elsewhere, JC claims to have confirmed the billybob P4 spec numbers posted at Aceshardware a while back, along with some other mostly unimpressive comparative numbers, see jc-news.com. Elmer also seemed to express satisfaction, if not oblique confirmation, on the billybob numbers in a lame dialog I had with him a few days back. It looks like there are plenty of things where the awesome super-sized p4 die will fit right in the slot vacated by the 1.13ghz cumine. Cheers, Dan.