what's the point of that simplicity if it doesn't translate into higher clocks and lower power consumption ?
This statement is the perfect example of your current posting
pattern of idiotic claims and/or trolling.
The target market for IPF was RISC processors. In 1994 that
included mid to high end servers and technical workstations.
In 2002 when McKinley shipped that included mid to high end
servers.
Please show me how high clock rates or lower power benefit
mid to high end server platforms? Keep in mind one of the
earliest lessons a compute newb learns is frequency is not
the same thing as performance, especially in comparisons
across architectures. Were you hoping for IPF laptops?
Let me make this clear - grow the **** up! Pull your head
out and look around at what is actually happening. Whine
all you want about low IPF clock rate, how great Power6
is, and how much cheaper and lower power x86 chips are
but in Q3, the last quarter reported, IPF server revenues
were up roughly 50%, i.e. IPF sales grew a HUNDRED
TIMES FASTER than the overall server market (0.5%).
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