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fulafel
on April 6, 2018
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Fifty or Sixty Years of Processor Development for ...
Well, 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
on April 6, 2018
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Quite. 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.
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Note that the following generation of POWER was clocked lower. Clock frequency != performance.