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To: Scumbria who wrote (133477)	4/27/2001 1:24:58 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Scumbria, <Clearly P4 has some severe imbalances in the pipeline.> Come on, you should know better than I do that increasing the pipeline by a factor of X does not lead to a linear increase in clock speed. Isn't it safe to say that as the pipeline gets longer, each pipeline stage becomes so dumbed down that the interstage flops (whatever they're called) become a larger percentage of the total logic? Plus, wouldn't the intergate delays become much more of a factor in longer pipelines, as evidenced by the two no-logic "drive" stages within the P4's 20-stage pipeline? Tenchusatsu