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Subject: Re: how i see SMT

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 13:35:04 04/14/03

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On April 14, 2003 at 16:06:57, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>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

Ha, you think rapid execution engines are CPUs?

Then what is all that other stuff on the chip, besides the rapid execution units
and the L2 cache?

Filler?

-Tom

• Re: how i see SMT Vincent Diepeveen 13:50:03 04/14/03
  • Re: how i see SMT Tom Kerrigan 15:24:10 04/14/03
    • Re: how i see SMT Vincent Diepeveen 05:53:47 04/15/03

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