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Subject: Re: Facts and assuptions on Hammer arch.

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 22:46:20 12/31/02

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On December 31, 2002 at 23:22:00, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On December 31, 2002 at 23:15:53, Dan Andersson wrote:
>
>>The 8-way chipset was the product of another company. They canned it. And then
>>AMD was already on the way with the Hammer. So they could not be bothered to do
>>it themselves. And the easy out disappeared when Intel got the Alpha processor
>>infrastructure.
>>
>>MvH Dan Andersson
>
>thanks, intel really seems to have put those alpha guys to work. That
>McKinley blows away the 21264 for me *bigtime*.

I would bet you have _never_ touched a 21264.  It was marginally faster for
me than mckinley.  Tim had a 600mhz machine that hit 800K with crafty.


>
>Very impressive for a 2nd version of the Itanium.
>
>Can't wait to see how the I3 is going to be. If such processors get
>SMT on chip it is going to be perhaps really very well performing.

SMT doesn't fit Itanium very well...


>
>Imagine they make it 4 threads a cpu. In which case i could run at a
>128 processor partition already like 500 processes easily!!



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