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Subject: Re: the empire strikes back

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 11:00:38 01/11/02

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On January 10, 2002 at 17:09:24, Tom Kerrigan wrote:

>How is that nothing new?? What other processors have SMT, besides that one
>super-obscure mainframe processor that isn't being made anymore and that I
>forgot the name of?

The later Alphas had. I don't think those are 'obscure'.

>>>Besides, how do you know it's even possible to make a smarter chip than the P3?
>>Even Intel seems to think so given the Itanium. The first benchmarks
>>weren't exactly encouraging though. I hope that improves with the next
>>generations soon.
>
>The Itanium doesn't get higher ILP from x86 code. Apples and oranges.

It doesn't necessarily have to run x86 code. But it has to be affordable
and reasonbly well supported.

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GCP



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