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Subject: Re: how i see SMT

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 13:06:57 04/14/03

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On April 14, 2003 at 15:25:15, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>On April 13, 2003 at 22:58:48, Jeremiah Penery wrote:
>
>>>I bet intel will call P4-Prescott to be SMT too instead of CMP. But do you
>>>really believe it's SMT?
>>
>>Um, yes.
>
>Heh. Absolutely.
>
>Look at the pictures of the die.
>
>Do you see 2 CPUs?

>I don't.

Look again. 2 rapid execution engines (cpu's) with each their own 16KB L1 cache:

http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2003_03_06_Looking_at_Intels_Prescott.html

>(Although one curiosity is that it has 2 "netburst" blocks.)
>
>-Tom



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