On Thursday 01 February 2007, Nelson, David (ED, PAR&D) wrote: > > Also Pentium-M has a lower latency L2 cache than P-4. With respect > > to pipeline lengths I was curious to see what they actually > > were: P-4 has > > 20 stages, P-M has.. err... < 20 stages (Intel won't say exactly!). > > > > I found this an interesting read for those of you interested in > > this: > > > > http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2342&p=1 > > > > Cheers > > > > Mark > > At the risk of pulling this topic a little more off-topic - the P-M > vs P-4 is an interesting case of a Pentium 3 chipset with a die > shrink outperforming a P-4. > > The Intel Core (2) Solo/Duo CPUs are based on the Pentium M as well. > Netburst is pretty much dead afaik.
Thanks for everyone's replies. I now know, 6 months later, exactly what cpu I have :-) I've been finding over the last 10 years or so that if I don't keep up with new cpu developments, it takes ages to get familiar with the terminology and current products again. I think it's called "the price of rapid technology advances" alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
