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To: Scumbria who wrote (127576)	2/16/2001 3:19:57 PM
From: fingolfen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

I don't think it would be possible to undo the 2X ALU, without a huge effort. You're probably right... but let's look at this more closely. Let's pretend you're Intel, and that you're assertion about the heat and scalability of the 2X ALU's is correct. 1) You have the Willamette/P4. Great performer on anything optimized. Passable on everything else. 2) You've got a path to 2.0GHz on the current process, and then well past 2.0GHz on the next process (0.13 micron). 3) You, however, have a problem with heat and scalability late in a process lifetime. 4) Integer performance could be better as well as legacy x87. 5) Merced team is freed-up, Willamette team is freed up, McKinley team is freed-up... so you have designer resources at your disposal. Do you make the huge effort?