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To: Tony Viola who wrote (150315)	11/29/2001 12:40:51 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, "This is normal. Are you going to tell me that AMD chips have just one clock for all the logic on chip? I don't think so." I am not going to tell you so. But I am going to ask you why Intel does not use the "double-pumped ALU" frequency as the marketed CPU frequency, and say to public that their top P4 is "running at 4GHz"? I can tell you why. Because the 4GHz chip area would be ridiculously small to make this claim reasonable for general public, probably much less than a square millimeter. Now, how big is the 2GHz area, Tony? There are indications that every other part of P4 is running at half frequency, 1GHz max - caches, decoders, everything. You can look at the thermal image of P4, intel.com and remember that the temperature tends to spread out, so the actual high-frequency area may be much-much smaller. In short, all this frequency deal is just marketing, it has the same level of justification as AMD performance rating. - Ali