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To: pgerassi who wrote (144618)	10/3/2001 12:40:29 PM
From: Noel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Pete, RE: The amazing 4GHz CPU!! Pete says: I would never call this a 4GHz CPU. I too would never call this a 4GHz CPU. But what we are arguing here is whether a section of the CPU runs at 4GHz. I think it does since as you pointed out earlier the 16bit adder is driven by a 4GHz clock. You are quite right in pointing out that the result of that 16 bit addition is available only half-a-cycle later, so the 32 bit addition takes 1 cycle. So I guess the essence of the question we are trying to ask is: Is there any other commercial microprocessor with significant volume (>10K) that does a 16 bit addition at that frequency? I have not seen one myself. Of course, I have seen several test CPUs with that kind of circuit performance but never a commercial CPU that implements a full architecture (not a subset). Test CPUs do not have to worry about yields, reliability, etc. In conclusion, I characterize this as a 2 GHz CPU with a small but important section that operates at twice the base frequency. On another note, I am not aware of any Intel marketing foils taking advantage of this. Are you? I personally would hope not.