Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto@gmail.com) on 11/19/10 wrote:
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>someone (someone@somewhere.com) on 11/17/10 wrote:
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>>I doubt any of its contemporaries (Willamette, Power4,
>>EV6, US-III) would have held up as well being kept on
>>life support all the way to a 65 nm quad core.
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>To be entirely fair I'd say that Willamette would have probably done better than Prescott did on 90/65nm.

Prescott solved a lot of the fragility of the earlier designs ( Willy, Northwood ). Especially for servers, the difference was more pronounced.