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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (170787)9/9/2002 12:37:40 AM
From: kapkan4u  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
The dumbest idea in the history of MPU design -- P4's double clocked ALUs -- is rearing its ugly head, again.

theinquirer.net

"One problem, according to sources close to the matter, is that when the internal chip frequency hits 6GHz, as it does with the 3.06GHz because the adders are double clocked to get the work done in a single pipeline cycle, Intel will have to eventually re-engineer the design of the P4 to keep it viable. But such a task is of such magnitude that to achieve the frequencies the firm is projecting in 2005 or so, it is probably more realistic to start another design rather than re-engineer all the innards of the processor."

The Marvelous Mike gets kudos for an important scoop, again.

Kap