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To: combjelly who wrote (57009)	10/3/2001 11:45:32 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Combjelly, Re: "About the only way to shoe horn a core like that into 100mm^2 would be to equip it with a Duron-like amount of cache, certainly not the 512k to 1Meg that many are expecting." You make a good point regarding the die size. That's one piece of information that we know, yet it seems implausible that all the features that Hans described could make it into a die that's only 100mm^2. Extra pipeline stages tend to add die size, because of all the extra temporary registers required. Dual cores would certainly add a lot to die size. The size of the caches, as you mentioned, would increase die size by a good deal. Finally, all those new buffers and prediction algorithms would require new queues, stacks, buffers, and caches, that would all increase die size. Given the constraints of Clawhammer, I doubt we'd see a Hans variety core as the first incarnation of Hammer. But on the other hand, all of these patents give AMD plenty of ways to improve the core over the life of the micro-architecture. wanna_bmw