> Sounds similar which would be a good reason to get Alpha
> engineers.

I believe that SMT==Hyperthreading.

>From what I heard, Compaq actually owned key patents which made SMT
efficient. Without the use of them, SMT wasn't very effective.

The purchase of Alpha-related technology taught Intel how to do
Hyperthreading, and how to do it well.

--Phil

Compaq: High Performance Server Systems Quality & Performance Engineering
---------------- Alpha, The Fastest Processor on Earth --------------------
Phillip.Ezoltcompaq.com Performance Tools/Analysis
------------------- See the results at www.spec.org -----------------------

On Thu, 6 Sep 2001, W Bauske wrote:

> "Hoover, Tony" wrote:
> >
> >
> > now an Intel/Compaq thought...
> > Considering the Intel licensing agreement was "non-exclusive", should AMD
> > also license Alpha technology for their upcoming "Sledgehammer" product
> > line?
> >
>
> To give you some idea where Intel are heading:
>
> At its Intel Developers Forum late last month, the giant
> chipmaker showed off a Pentium 4 running at an impressive
> 3.5GHz. But then an Intel executive came out and said that,
> while the speed will always be important, people are more
> interested in performance. Paul Otellini, GM of the Intel
> Architecture Group, then challenged hardware and software
> developers to come out with technology that is useful to
> their customers, telling them, "During a downturn, companies
> tend to lose focus on what people want."
>
> That said, Otellini then unveiled a technology called
> hyperthreading, which holds a lot of promise for businesses
> that want to boost the performance and power of their CPU
> systems. In short, hyperthreading is a way of fooling
> applications into thinking a single processor is actually
> two separate ones.
>
> The result could be up to a 30 percent improvement in the
> performance of a single processor, a huge boost for
> companies looking for more power without having to add
> chips. It could immediately benefit Web servers by ramping
> up the number of Web transactions, and Intel executives said
> they were interested in moving the technology onto the
> desktop.
>
> Consider what a Hyperthreaded 3.5Ghz P4 could do in terms of
> workload. Also, I think EV8 had SMT, Symetric Multi-Threading.
> Sounds similar which would be a good reason to get Alpha
> engineers.
>
> Wes
>
>
>
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