" Mega Hertz... what Mega Hertz ?
The 90 nm Prescott is expected to reach speeds of 4 GHz and beyond. The Integer Execution Units however runs at 8 GHz, so does the integer register file, the address generators and now, as we may presume, also the L1 data cache. So why call it a 4 GHz processor? Technically spoken it is not a 4 GHz processor but an 8 GHz processor..."
<A HREF="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects.html" target="_new">http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects.html</A>
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"8GHz speeds possible
By Mike Magee: Thursday 18 April 2002, 09:39
A REPORT BY Hans de Vries at Chip Architect looks at an up and coming chip conference and examines what Prescott may hold in store for us all.
Including the alleged "Yamhill" 64-bit extensions that use X86-64.
He says that Intel has as many as 18 presentations on the Pentium 4 architecture at the VLSI 2002 symposium in June, and summarises the ones that interest him the most.
He compares a 130 nanometer (.13 micron) process to Prescott's 90 nanometer (.09) micron, and also talks about the rumoured Yamhill X86-64 INTC clone, which he reckons will not be too hard for Intel to implement.
He also thinks that the JEDEC DDR II standard is particularly poor, compared to the speed of future caches in X86 processors.
He reckons that a 90 nano Prescott will compete successfully with a 90 nano Sledgehammer chip.
You can find all this and more here <A HREF="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects" target="_new">http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects</A> <same as above>"
<A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3288" target="_new">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3288</A>
i don't trust the inquirer as much as anyone but it was there. the chip arctect site is cool though.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>
The 90 nm Prescott is expected to reach speeds of 4 GHz and beyond. The Integer Execution Units however runs at 8 GHz, so does the integer register file, the address generators and now, as we may presume, also the L1 data cache. So why call it a 4 GHz processor? Technically spoken it is not a 4 GHz processor but an 8 GHz processor..."
<A HREF="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects.html" target="_new">http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects.html</A>
AND
"8GHz speeds possible
By Mike Magee: Thursday 18 April 2002, 09:39
A REPORT BY Hans de Vries at Chip Architect looks at an up and coming chip conference and examines what Prescott may hold in store for us all.
Including the alleged "Yamhill" 64-bit extensions that use X86-64.
He says that Intel has as many as 18 presentations on the Pentium 4 architecture at the VLSI 2002 symposium in June, and summarises the ones that interest him the most.
He compares a 130 nanometer (.13 micron) process to Prescott's 90 nanometer (.09) micron, and also talks about the rumoured Yamhill X86-64 INTC clone, which he reckons will not be too hard for Intel to implement.
He also thinks that the JEDEC DDR II standard is particularly poor, compared to the speed of future caches in X86 processors.
He reckons that a 90 nano Prescott will compete successfully with a 90 nano Sledgehammer chip.
You can find all this and more here <A HREF="http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects" target="_new">http://www.chip-architect.com/news/2002_04_16_Prescott_Prospects</A> <same as above>"
<A HREF="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3288" target="_new">http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=3288</A>
i don't trust the inquirer as much as anyone but it was there. the chip arctect site is cool though.
<A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?id=9933" target="_new"> My Rig </A>