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To: tpcong who wrote (239868)	9/6/2007 9:51:30 AM
From: tecate78732	Respond to of 275872

I know why, to scale.. and to allow all their respective chip families interact... Intel followed the speed racer design and it failed, but the design is around and who knows, if and when the power problems can be fixed the P4 may come back!! Truthfully - Intel is going with CSI to scale and you know it don't you ;)

To: tpcong who wrote (239868)	9/6/2007 11:51:39 AM
From: wbmw	Respond to of 275872

Re: Your joking right? No, are you...? Re: Why is Intel developing Nehalem and CSI? It's not to build a pinnacle to mankind, that's for sure! Re: You answer that and your house of cards all falls down. Not in the least. If your argument was that scalable interconnects were good, then you would have no argument from me. They are good, and they contribute a fine advantage to AMD with Barcelona. However, they are far from being the only important thing for server performance, and compared to the Barcelona launch product, Intel's advantages tower over AMD's scalable interconnect. Such as: - 4-issue core vs 3-issue core for Barcelona - 8M of total L2 cache vs 4M for Barcelona - 3GHz operation vs 2GHz for Barcelona - Micro/Macro ops Fusion vs Macro ops for Barcelona - Memory disambiguation vs OOO loads for Barcelona There are more, and these are all Intel advantages. To predict that these are insignificant, or not enough to overcome "Native Quad Core", you are seriously misinformed. The truth will in fact come out soon, so no need to take my word for it.