Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Mosberger <> | Date | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 11:29:38 -0800 | Subject | Re: Minutes from Feb 21 LSE Call |
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>>>>> On Sun, 23 Feb 2003 19:17:30 +0000 (UTC), torvalds@transmeta.com (Linus Torvalds) said:
Linus> Look at them the right way and you realize that a lot of the Linus> grottyness is exactly _why_ the x86 works so well (yeah, and Linus> the fact that they are everywhere ;).
But does x86 reall work so well? Itanium 2 on 0.13um performs a lot better than P4 on 0.13um. As far as I can guess, the only reason P4 comes out on 0.13um (and 0.09um) before anything else is due to the latter part you mention: it's where the volume is today.
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