[rescue] SGI, MIPS, and IA-64

[Julius Sridhar]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:

> > > I think the bundles are cool (a bundle has 3 41bit instructions in them, which
> > > are guaranteed to execute simultaneously, to my understanding), plus for the
> > > most part it looks like IA-64 can execute 2 bundles at once (meaning 6 parallel
> > > instructions).
> >
> >   Wow, six whole instructions...one more than the (several year old)
> > MIPS R10K.  Isn't Intel wonderful?
>
> Yeah, and the power4 can issue up to 8 instructions and retire 6 of
> them... If only IBM was to drop the price of those things to mop the walls
> with intel!

Isn't that 8 instructions per core?

Cheap POWER?  That's what the PowerPC is for.  I'm sure that the
enhancements in the POWER4 will make their way to the PowerPC soon.

Peace...  Sridhar