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

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57100)	5/3/1999 4:12:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572777

<Kind of curious if the P6 core was designed with MHz speed in mind or was it just a fortuitious event?> P6 core was designed with MHz in mind. I think back then, Intel predicted that pure clock speed would be more important than the performance-per-clock paradigm that Cyrix and AMD were pursuing. Taking things a step further, Willamette is designed for insane MHz, I believe. I've heard about some weird tricks that Willamette pulls off that makes me wonder, "Can they really do that?" Unfortunately, my knowledge of Willamette is very vague at the moment. <Before you came on the board I suggested the P5 could have easily reached 400+ MHz on .25u. Even that this might have been a better strategy for Intel than the Celeron but apparently Intel wanted to move away from Socket 7, which didn't bury it anyway.> I agree about the P5 vs. Celeron strategy, but as an Intel guy I didn't want to say it until someone else did, like yourself. Oh well. The good news is that I can upgrade my Pentium II 266 MHz to a Celeron 433 for real cheap now. That wouldn't be possible if the Celeron were based on the P5 core rather than the P6 core. Tenchusatsu