[rescue] RE: divide and conquer? (CPU design)

[G W Adkins]

> > Real gains in speed are achieved by proximity, and dividing a CPU into 
> > multiple pieces of silicon (or whatever) will have a negative effect.
> 
> I beleive that he was trying to say that it should be 8 CPUs on the same
> die, as opposed to one CPU with 8 execution units.
> 
Check out IBM's Power4 stuff...

quad-SMP on one chip, unified L2 cache.