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To: fyodor_ who wrote (21625)	12/6/2000 12:29:16 AM
From: Gambit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"The P4 has exceptional double precision floating point performance" Are you sure??? SSE2 is not the same as a FPU...

To: fyodor_ who wrote (21625)	12/6/2000 8:57:27 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 275872

Re: I don't necessarily agree... Both have extremely high memory bandwidths, which is good for servers and crunchers I think that most server applications are limited by i/o bandwidth rather than memory bandwidth. Process and thread switching, and the risk of thrashing caches are the main challenges for server CPUs. The long pipeline and limited L1 of P4 may limit it as a server chip. Intel is supposed to be redesigning Itanium to shorten its already moderate pipeline length. So some of these characteristics may be changed by Intel in the next iterations of these chips. OTOH, Itanium/McKinley seems to facing some difficulty in getting launched at all, and P4 is uniprocessor for the time being. Unless / until those things change, neither is viable in the server market. AMD needed a big chunk of additional time to get its workstation / server strategy going and Intel has given it to them. If it's enough time, then AMD will move into these lucrative new markets. Otherwise AMD is left with rising sales and profits that are limited to the desktop market. Regards, Dan