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Subject: Re: You think you seen fast clock speed?

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 06:08:52 06/14/00

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On June 14, 2000 at 07:02:47, Adrien Regimbald wrote:

>I'm overjoyed to hear this! ;)  I have been getting sick of the strategy of
>making constant tiny improvements to the existing architectures - a move to a
>completely new architecture would be tremendous!
>
>From my classes on architecture, there were a lot of _very_ interesting
>optimizations done to CPU architecture and strategies at the start of the PC
>boom.  Lately though, it has just been a mantra of "smaller smaller smaller,
>more more more!" with no interesting advances made - I can't wait to see what
>they've done for the new architecture :)

I just wonder about one thing. If the architecture is so advanced, why would it
be necessary to start at 1.4GHz? Presumeably such an advanced product would also
outperform Pentium III's at current speeds.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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