Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:52:01 01/22/01
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On January 22, 2001 at 03:10:18, Gregor Overney wrote: > >Well, good news. Does this mean I can finally buy a system with a 21364? So far, >all that Compaq is willing to deliver is still based on the 21264. At least four >months ago that was the music. > >The 21464 sounds like Intel's IA-64 - > it will take a very long time until it >hits the market. > >It is also a surprise to me that Compaq continues to push this technology after >loosing most of its top chip designers to AMD. The 21264 was the last design >Digital's excellent group developed. > >Why does the 21464 chip design try to execute up to eight instructions >simultaneously. Don't they know that the more instructions are executed >simultaneously the less they can clock their CPU? See Pentium IV vs. Pentium III >as an example. - Are they using high-T(c)'s for it? I don't think so. > >Gregor > why would you conclude that more instructions per cycle slows the cycle down? Because the Intel does it? Different animals. Pentium = 64 bit bus. Alpha=256. With much higher memory bandwidth to boot.. > >>found at : http://www.aceshardware.com/ >> >> >>The more you read about the Alpha 21464 (EV8), the more impressed you are. >>Grandmaster Paul De Mone has published >> his third part of the EV8 series: >> >> The Compaq Alpha 21464, or EV8, is a superscalar RISC processor >>currently under development that can nominally issue and execute up to eight >> instructions per clock cycle. It will likely have the ability to >>overlap the out-of-order execution of well over a hundred (possibly two hundred) >> instructions at any given instant. >> >> Read more here... >>http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT011601000000 >> >> >> >>well, well, well .... I run the 100 meters way faster than this speedlight >>processor ... ;))))
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