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To: Petz who wrote (6228)	5/19/1998 2:20:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

<slightly off topic>IDT Winchip design philosophy vs. AMD, Intel winchip.com Even though the IDT WinChipT C6T processor is externally compatible with the Pentium processor with MMXT Technology. The internal architecture and design of the IDT WinChip C6 is very different from that of the Pentium processor and other contemporary x86 processors such as the AMD-K6 and Cyrix 6x86MX. The IDT WinChip C6 processor uses a unique design approach that provides significant benefits to the end-user. This design approach provides high performance at lower cost and lower power consumption using a relatively simple architecture that runs at high internal clock frequencies (MHz). The IDT WinChip C6 includes large on-chip caches and is extensively optimized for volume desktop and notebook PC product categories. The resulting IDT WinChip C6 processor is smaller (die size is only 88 mm2 in 0.35micron technology) and uses lower power than other 2.8 and 3.3v Socket 7 processors with MMX Technology. Philosophically, this is a return to the same basic concepts of RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) design that allowed microprocessor performance breakthroughs in the 1980's. Recently, however, contemporary x86 processors have followed a different path, using very complex internal designs employing advanced architecture concepts such as superscalar execution, out-of-order instruction execution, reorder buffers, non-blocking caches, and so forth (these terms are all found in the data sheets of competitive products. Unfortunately, while these advanced technical concepts make for good technical reading, the real bottom-line benefit that they provide to the end-user has been limited, especially when considering the resultant large chip sizes (resulting in high costs) and high power consumption. No such advanced technical hocus-pocus is to be found on an IDT WinChip C6 processor -- it merely offers compatibility with good performance, very low costs, and very low power consumption. Petz