Intel to Increase Stages in Prescott

Alizarin Erythrosin writes "Further contributing to the MHz Myth, The Register and ZDNet are reporting that the new P4 core, codenamed Prescott, will have a longer pipeline then Northwood. No official numbers have been released, but The Reg is saying an Intel spokesman said that 30 stages seems to be a reasonable estimate. As most of us know, a longer pipeline can lead to slowdowns in the form of branch mispredictions and pipeline stalls. 'And just as the PIII proved faster than the early P4s in some applications, it's likely that Northwood will similarly prove faster than Prescott, which has clearly been designed for speeds of the order of 4GHz.'"

Comments

Re:OPEN YOUR EYES

[Chuck Bucket]

yep, that would be _way_ less. of course Iraq *needs* democrazy so it's for their own good! after all, it's what we pay taxes for...

CB

Re:OPEN YOUR EYES

[Chuck Bucket]

oh yeah, a site that talks about COLUMBO visiting Clinton? Yep, that does seem like a relavant site! But it's on the internet, so it must be true!

Please go back to watching Fox news now, catch ya later!

CB

Re:Holy pipelines

[Otter]

The "giant ass pipeline" is being built in one of the other Stans -- Kazakhstan, IIRC.

You must not have heard about that, which isn't surprising since the Chomskyite lunatic community isn't big on announcing corrections. After all, being a conspiracy nut means never having to say you're sorry.

Re:BUSH LIED, SOLDIERS DIED

[Chuck Bucket]

Fair enough, I appreciate your candor.

CB

Re:WHEN CLINTON LIED, NO ONE DIED

[Chuck Bucket]

Er, the topic is about Intel, I honestly think that there are more important issues we should be addressing. My posts here are simply a small ripple in the ocean that is /. with all of it's goatse.cx, gnnas and fps post.

still, I appreciate your candor, and will drop the commentary for now.

CB

Re:Holy pipelines

[wwest4]

it's still on the agenda.

a trans-afghan pipeline has been encouraged by the us for years preceding the latest invasion of the country. it may never be built, but it is still being pushed by the US. There has been news trickling in fairly steadily in the past two months about this. eg from times of india jan 12

the kazakhs HAVE a good deal of oil/gas - it needs to get south and west. maybe you're referring to the BTC pipeline project that replaced the first trans-afghan pipeline plan.

the idea put forth by the "conspiracy nuts" is that the US had an interest in occupying the region because their presence means they can fund and participate in the installation of new export infrastructure (like the BTC, in which US-based Unocal is involved). The war in Afghanistan meant bases in neighboring countries like Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Kyrgyzstan, which allows for a permanent regional presence.

it doesn't really matter where the pipeline runs -the US couldn't have participated as easily if it hadn't established a presence.

maybe the conspiracy nuts should hold off on the apologies after unocal donates a portion of their profits to the poverty and war-stricken afghan people, or towards the all-too-modest $160 million reconstruction plan. (To put this into perspective: this doesn't even approach the size of the defecits some of the US' state budgets run).

Re:Holy pipelines

[Otter]

maybe you're referring to the BTC pipeline project that replaced the first trans-afghan pipeline plan.

You mean the "IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL!!" pipeline, the one Unocal is involved in, the "giant ass pipeline" the guy I responded to was talking about? Yeah, I might be referring to that.

Look, it's over two years later, there's no pipeline. There might be a different pipeline someday? Well, that's a win-win scenario, isn't it? Afghanistan becomes a less impoverished wasteland and the people who fought to keep the Taliban in place get to keep their cognitive dissonance running for a few more years. I'm certainly not going to insist that no industrial development may happen in the region because it might feed the sort of idiocy the AC who responded to me laid out nicely.

maybe the conspiracy nuts should hold off on the apologies after unocal donates a portion of their profits to the poverty and war-stricken afghan people.

That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. And who is giving out mod points on this thread, anyway? The article is about CPU development, for chrissake.