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This reminds me of my teacher in micro architecture who mocked the insanity of the Pentium 4 NetBurst pipeline. It's hard to believe today that Intel fully expe
by jug 6y ago
This reminds me of my teacher in micro architecture who mocked the insanity of the Pentium 4 NetBurst pipeline. It's hard to believe today that Intel fully expected and were commited to make that stuff run in upwards of 10 GHz. Meanwhile, AMD offered tongue in cheek Prescott Survival Kits¹ due to, uh thermal hazards. Those were the days. :-)
¹ https://i.imgur.com/BYtbfDX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/BYtbfDX.jpg
- theandrewbailey 6y agoThose "Extreme Edition" CPUs[0] were nicknamed "Emergency Edition" for a reason. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4#Gallatin_(Extreme_Edition) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium_4#Gallatin_(Extreme_Ed...
- bogomipz 6y ago>"This reminds me of my teacher in micro architecture who mocked the insanity of the Pentium 4 NetBurst pipeline." Could you elaborate on what exactly was so insane about the the Netburst microarchitecture?
- Spare_account 6y agoNot the same person but I assume it is related to the issues discussed under "Scaling up issues" here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_(microarchitecture)#Scaling-up_issues https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBurst_(microarchitecture)#S...