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To: Tony Viola who wrote (53234)	8/30/2001 7:00:09 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Tony, Of course, Intel is standing still, right? Northwood does nothing to improve IPC, right? L2 increase will help a bit, and if they get the Jackson Technology to work, it would help even more. I don't know if there is anything else on the drawing board, but P4 design demonstrates that Intel traded higher MHz for lower IPC. One thing I am not clear about is actually the definition of IPC. IMO, IPC of the processor depends on things outside of processor (chipsets, memory) as well as multilier. For example, a P4 running at 1 GHz would have (IMO) higher IPC than the same processor running at 2 GHz, since a cache miss would stall the 2 GHz CPU for a lot more cycles than 1 GHz CPU. Is my understanding of IPC correct? Joe