1.8 Ghz athlon MP

[Damascus]

Originally posted by Taz
It was an Athlon MP not XP these don't use the peformance rating system, well the current ones don't. They are due for a speed hike but a jump from 1.2Ghz to 1.8Ghz is a bit supprising.

XP or MP, they are the same thing. The core is the same.

Originally posted by TDB
the reason why intels p4 was designed to reach these high clock speed was not for pr reason, it was because intel likes to stick with the same architechture for many years, pentium, pentium 2 and 3, basically has the same architecture, so they want a very future proof architechture they can use for many years, unlike amd who likes to invent new stuff every year.

I like to think that it is because Intel wanted something that could scale to 'impressive' GHz numbers rather than future-proofing it. That's what the cynical side of me thinks.

[cbman]

Umm... isn't future-proofing one of the reasons why a chip should be able to scale to impressive new (X)Hz numbers with as little change as possible?

I guess making it as adaptable as lego would help too.. but I know too many people who are all thumbs to make it practical.

[superfly]

On average,intel develops new cpu cores roughly every 4 years,so i'm thinking that was the main reason why the p4 has such a long pipeline in the first place.

Besides i'm almost sure that AMD will also have to resort to that in order to be able to reach very high clock speeds on their upcoming sledgehammer series.