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Future of Alpha architecture Posted Tuesday, August 24, 1999 by kornel
CPU Gurus has a new article up where we take close look to various components of overall architecture performance, and what we can expect in near future. Read the article by clicking here.
Some notes about CPU Gurus Posted Tuesday, August 17, 1999 by kornel
So the script is working fine. :) Now, I would like to point to the fact that the articles on CPU Gurus will point mostly into future trends and really advanced technologies, instead of comparing products on feature and feature basis. However, there will be later something about Alpha. I think, that pure comparisons of products exists on a lot of servers, which is not Radoslav's goal.
"I am looking not one year ahead, but more years ahead. One of the question is how long x86 can be improved, where are the barriers of EPIC, and what is the path, when EPIC hit performance wall (what is around 140 SpecInt95 on 0.18 micron). Of course, I will touch Alpha 21464, but talking about 21264 is not necessary from my point of view, because you can read it on hundred of web pages, which we can just point to. But 21464 uses multithreading in shared reorder-buffer, which is conceptually advance over any of today's design and one of path of improving performance, even with own drawbacks. "
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