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chipquy

They are very different designs. Had Prescott been
implemented in 130 nm like Northwood it would have
been bigger, slower and hotter than it was. That is
the benefit of the process shrink.

Speculative and irrelevant. Neither a plain shrink nor the benefits from it happened.

K.