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To: richanfamus who wrote (170816)	9/9/2002 4:43:20 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

rich, Re: "Itanium 2[Madison] may get 50% clock speed increase - to 1.5 GHz" I believe this was the expected jump, according to several rumors. It's fairly impressive, considering the added cache. With fewer pipeline stages and 12x the cache, Madison may get a higher frequency than the Pentium III based Tualatin core, which topped out at around 1.4GHz. Perhaps this is a testament of the departure from x86 architecture, whose complicated decode stages may have limited frequency growth. If Itanium had additional pipeline stages (and IMO, the core already has enough IPC to afford a small loss due to increased pipeline stages), it may eventually outscale Pentium 4. I expect Madison to perform very favorably in the benchmarks, since an added 50% in frequency and 2x cache should make already excellent McKinley scores that much better. wbmw