>John R Pierce wrote
>the P4 is likely gonna ramp up to 2GHz, 3Ghz and beyond faster and farther
>than AMD can ramp up the Tbird.
The problem with Intel, is they have difficulties to
sustain AMD performance, so they wanted to announce
higher frequencies, to be the first again.
So they doubled the number of pipeline stage from 10 to 20
and they obtained a P4 - 1.4 GHz having the same performances
a P3 - 700 MHz. The gain is only on "vectorized" data,
when the pipe is full, as on graphics treatments.
>Jud McCranie wrote
>Yes, most Intel chips max out at about 2.5 times their initial speed, and
>they expect the P4 clock speed to go up by at least a factor of 10.
And they claimed 1.4 GHz and perhaps 10 GHz soon,to make dreaming on P4.
Tomorrow is another day ....
Their objectif is only publicity. G4 with small number of pipe line stage has small
frequencies
but quite the same performances.
On the way, 64 bits machines, with Thunderbird like, micro-decoded
and 8086-compatible, very performant and inexpensive. Intel
product, 8086-incompatible .......
Best regards, Denis Cazor, Paris
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