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Subject: Intel Willamette and chess

Author: Howard Exner

Date: 19:09:48 02/15/00

One of the biggest features of the Willamette is its ability to run the Integer
ALU (Arithmetic Logic Unit) at twice the clock speed of the CPU.  This means
that on a 1.5GHz Willamette, the Integer ALU is actually running at 3.0GHz.  For
games this won’t increase performance by a large amount due to their largely
floating point oriented performance dependency however in business applications
and other applications that are primarily integer performance dependent the
Willamette will truly excel.

The above paragraph is from Anandtech. Are chess programs dependent on
integer rather than floating point ? If so does this mean a genuine 3 GHz
speed for chess applications? Sounds too good to be true.

• Re: Intel Willamette and chess Dan Andersson 04:49:39 02/17/00
  • Re: Intel Willamette and chess J. Wesley Cleveland 17:59:32 02/17/00
    • Re: Intel Willamette and chess Dan Andersson 16:46:15 02/18/00
      • Re: Intel Willamette and chess Tom Kerrigan 18:11:58 02/18/00
        • Re: Intel Willamette and chess David Blackman 22:42:19 02/18/00
          • Re: Intel Willamette and chess Eugene Nalimov 22:52:58 02/18/00
  • Re: Intel Willamette and chess Howard Exner 07:33:33 02/17/00
• Re: Intel Willamette and chess Tom Kerrigan 19:48:06 02/15/00

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