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To: fyodor_ who wrote (127045)	2/9/2001 9:22:27 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: "I'm just pointing at the naked emperor" Maybe so but you may be wrong about P4. EP

To: fyodor_ who wrote (127045)	2/9/2001 9:36:58 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 186894

IBM has rambled on about doing both 1, 2 and 4 -core versions of the Power4. The 4-core version is the one slated at 115W. It is a two core design. THE WATSONYOUTH

To: fyodor_ who wrote (127045)	2/9/2001 11:27:44 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Fyo - Re: ". As usual, Paul is trying to spin something out of nothing. I'm just pointing at the naked emperor." BULL SHIT - you're just PLAIN WRONG. IBM's paper describes a TWO CORE design - at 115 WATTS - at 1.1 GHz Get your facts straight before you start accusing others of the VERY THING YOU ARE GUILTY OF. Paul {============================} 15.2 POWER4 Physical Design 2:00 PM C. Anderson, J. Petrovich, J. Keaty, G. Nusbaum IBM, Austin, TX The 4 th -generation POWER processor chip contains 170M transistors and includes 2 microprocessor cores, shared L2, directory for an off-chip L3, and all logic needed to interconnect multiple chips to form an SMP. It is implemented in a 0.18µm SOI technology with 7 layers of Cu interconnect, functions in systems at 1.1 GHz, and dissipates 115W at 1.5V.