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To: Charles R who wrote (58327)5/16/1999 10:57:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574518
 
Chuck,

Care to expand the thinking behind your statement?

I believe that if Intel was able to manufacture 600 MHz PIIIs in volume, they would be doing that. The fact that a particular part can be overclocked to 700 Mhz under supercooled conditions, does not extrapolate out to passing test at 600 MHz and 85 degrees centigrade.

Scumbria



To: Charles R who wrote (58327)5/16/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 1574518
 
Chuck,

I have always wondered how AMD is being able to clock its shallow pipeline parts within a speed grade of Intel's deep pipeline parts.

A deep pipeline is only effective if it is evenly balanced. The single cycle L1 access of P6 indicates to me that the pipeline is not balanced. Chip MHz can be no faster than the slowest stage of the pipe.

In contrast, the 21164 runs at 700MHz in a 0.35u process.

Scumbria