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To: Tony Viola who wrote (46542)	1/18/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583793

Tony, A deeper pipeline is indicative of a simpler architecture. The more pipe stages you have, the less work you are trying to do in a single cycle. Long wires become necessary when too many functional units get included in a single-cycle path. A deeply pipelined design (such as Alpha) minimizes the amount of communication necessary during a single clock. Scumbria

To: Tony Viola who wrote (46542)	1/19/1999 10:53:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583793

Tony, More on pipeline depth vs. clock speed: techweb.com Over the past two quarters, Centaur sold out its original WinChip, WinChip 2, and WinChip 2 3-D semiconductors. "And we think we are going to enjoy that condition this quarter also," Perham said. Additionally, the company is currently manufacturing a WinChip 3, which operates in the 300-MHz range, and plans in about a year-and-a-half to roll out a WinChip 4, which will operate at 400 MHz to 600 MHz and has an 11-stage "super-pipeline" cache, Perham said. Scumbria