Re: AMD planning 45nm 12-Core 'Istanbul' Processor ?

In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Zootal <giganews@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
in part:
>> Yeah, I recall how years ago some nutcases saying things like the
>> Pentium 3 (yes, the 3) was "already obsolete" upon release, because it
>> did not sup****t IA64, which was set to blow X86 out of the market when
>> it was released.
>>
> PIII obsolete? Hmm...trivia of the day - what microarchitecture
> did Intel base the core on? And what microarchitecture does the
> core have little if anything to do with?


The Pentium III was little more than a Pentium II with the L2
cache chips integrated on-die and running faster.  The P2 was
little more than a slot repackaging of the PentiumPro which was
a completely new effort for Intel having nothing in common with
the original Pentium and PentiumMMX.

In many ways the P4 has nothing in common with the P3 or core,
and looks much more like a dressed up, overclocked original Pentium.

-- Robert