I wonder why AMD decided to do 1M and 512K parts separately. I would imagine it can make more sence to have 1M and very tiny 256k cores. Indeed, the 256k core may cover speeds up to 3200 and 1M parts can do 3200, 3400 and 3700 parts.
If they had the 256k core by this time they would have >1 million sales already in Q1 and 1.5 millin in Q2.
Well, they didn't expected that prescott is such a crap. Lost a lot of efforts fighting the imaginary opponent...
Combjelly, what's your opinion on the relative performance in 32-bit mode of the 256K castrated K8 to an equivalent 256K 64-bit K8. I believe the Compaq 256K K8 had a 3000+ rating for a 256K 1.8 GHz model, which seems extremely high.
Do you think this reflects some kind of "Celeron rating," or did removing 64-bit capability somehow speed up the chip?
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