From: "Tony Ingenoso" 

Ever increasing core speeds have been a (relatively) losing proposition for
a while now.  A CPU idling 2X/3X as fast as the previous generation waiting
on its memory system is still just idling.

The only way to keep those cores busy is with increases in L1 and L2....or
to have programmers suddenly recognize the value of actually tuning code
(not likely).

AMD and Centaur recognized this years ago when they put 64K L1's in their
chips.  Going the increased L1 route is a LOT simpler than trying to make
some voodoo magic core. All the nonsense Intel has been doing lately with
HT, massively multi-stage pipes, reordering, etc makes for nice IEEE/ACM
papers, but plonking 128-256K of L1 on the chip would trump every bit of it
given the state of software development today.

"Adam"  wrote in message
news:42a42bf9$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> I like the Dual core Pent M'es & I think that the 3 ghz barrier is going
> to stick for a while (i.e. it's going to be some time before the 4,5,6
> etc ghz commodity cpu'es.)

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