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Subject: Re: When will a pc be as fast as Deep Blue?

Author: Tom Kerrigan

Date: 20:37:30 03/01/00

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On March 01, 2000 at 07:37:55, Graham Laight wrote:

>Pentium processors are a big and competitive market. Trouble is, I don't think
>they're the best architechture to put together in large numbers on the same
>motherboard.

Intel has been hell-bent on making the world's fastest single processor.

They seem to be ignoring the fact that several fast processors can be put on one
chip.

If they were so inclined, I don't think it would be a problem to put 4
(original) Pentiums on one chip. And there would probably be some space left
over for L2 cache.

AMD is taking this approach, but I don't know when they will have a product
ready, or how much it will cost. There's no manufacturing reason for such a
product to cost more than a single processor, but I assume they will milk it for
all it's worth.

-Tom



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