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Probably not: this is a boutique machine defined with an esoteric architecture, not a general-purpose integer computer for the cloud, which I was what I was tal

• chasil 5y ago
  Perhaps the key point is the era of design. The P4 was built with an enormous pipeline (~20 stage?) in the hopes of reaching a 10ghz goal that was never going to happen. The Itanium was designed a decade before, programmed for parallelism that was also never going to happen. The M1 is not an esoteric machine, and if Apple had bundled an Itanium of equal computational ability, all of those NOPs would burn a hole through the casing. ARM's 64-bit implementation is obviously something special, esoteric or not it is more powerful than anything produced by Intel in several measures.
  • SavantIdiot 5y ago
    Did HP really start that VLIW design _TEN_ years before P4, because that would be 1985 and I find that unlikely? At Intel IA64 and P4 were developed at the about same time, with P4 taping-out a few years later; the former in Santa Clara, the latter in Oregon. > The M1 is not an esoteric machine, and if Apple had bundled an Itanium of equal computational ability, all of those NOPs would burn a hole through the casing. You're right, its not. And I never said it was. But a 6D mesh torus sure is.