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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (159380)	2/20/2002 1:28:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Beamer - Re: "An IA-64 processor using EV8 technology - sounds great. A 32 processor IA-64 system could issue 6 instructions per clock with SMT and dual core for a total of 384 instructions per clock - twice that of your fictitious Sledgehammer. It sounds right up your alley!" Put 64 of these into a MADroid fictional cluster and you have 24,576 instructions per clock !!! Let the Droids feast on that baloney. Paul

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (159380)	2/20/2002 8:57:16 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: A 32 processor IA-64 system could issue 6 instructions per clock with SMT and dual core for a total of 384 instructions per clock Be a pretty big chip, though. 400mm2 at .13? What do think production costs would be, $500 per chip? Now add in the costs of the support chips Itanic requires. Another $750? Would it perform as well as a $100 Sledgehammer? Certainly not on 99% of the code base. And Sledgehammer embeds glueless logic for multiprocessing so it doesn't need expensive support chips... It sounds exactly like what happened when $10,000 2-way Intel workstations went up against $50,000 2-way SUNs and Alphas a few years ago and walked away with most of the workstation market. Intel has set itself up to be on the losing end of the identical set of circumstances.