[Pc_Support] Whoa! Intel actually re-designed it's CPU for once!

[Bryan J. Smith]

AnandTech has a good review of the Intel Core base design:  
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2748  

It's a good re-fit of the original 1994 Pentium Pro core (which was also
used through the Pentium 3, Centrino and Pentium-M), and far better and
more efficient than the NetBurst Pentium 4 architecture.  Have to give
them some credit here -- they _did_ finally redesign the core more than
they ever have since the original Pentium Pro.

With AMD's 1999 Athlon design aging, I'm sure they are not idle.  But
it's clear that Intel focused on many weak areas as best as they could
-- as well optimized lossy-math SSE so non-precise calculations run even
faster.  So AMD's got a bit of a challenge on the desktop/workstation
again.

Although it's still questionable if the server will scale -- at least
not without a proprietary implementation like IBM's X3.


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Bryan J. Smith            Professional, technical annoyance
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