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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Yousef who wrote (40751)	11/3/1998 7:29:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573745

Yousef, Hold up, I gotta jump in here on this one.. PA 8500 and IA-64 are completely (100% absolutely) different types of architectures.. PA is RISC.. IA-64 is VLIW (or EPIC, take your pick). One of the big performance improvements from the 8500 comes form improved branch-predicition and the HUGE onchip L2 (1.5Megs).. the performance of the 8500 isn't all that great, but it's a huge leap compared to the 8200 (I know cause I have an 8200 and will get upgrading to an 8500). <EOM> Steve