Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 11:19:59 01/11/02
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On January 11, 2002 at 14:00:38, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >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'. Wrong. The project was recently killed. Eugene >>>>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. > >-- >GCP
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