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Sharky Extreme has posted an article on the upcoming Pentium 4.



At the core of the Pentium 4 is a 20-stage pipeline. Intel´s ADD reminiscent marketing term for the new pipeline, borrowed in part from NVIDIA´s "HyperTexel Pipelines," is "Hyper Pipelined Technology." By lengthening the pipeline from ten stages with the P6 micro-architecture to 20 stages with the Intel NetBurst Micro-Architecture, Intel is able to up the clock speed dramatically. The first Pentium 4 parts are expected to ship at 1.4GHz or greater, up to 266MHz higher than the nearest Pentium III has reached.
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