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Those are interesting but they're rare exceptions. IBM do these amazing things on super high end chips that very few buy, but the commodity chips that power the
by justin66 9y ago
Those are interesting but they're rare exceptions. IBM do these amazing things on super high end chips that very few buy, but the commodity chips that power the PCs and the datacenters of the world (stuck at a little faster than 3GHz, give or take) just don't rely on that stuff very much.
- fulafel 9y agoWell, there isn't a sufficiently big difference between "super high end stuff" and volume parts that it would explain a 10 year lead. Note that the following generation of POWER was clocked lower. Clock frequency != performance.
- justin66 9y agoQuite. The more important example would be Pentium. The main thing that was impressive about Northwood was the clock rate. AMD of the same generation, and the Intel Core processors that followed, did more with a lower clock rate.