re dx robert desonia hal k ann arbor mi us robert desonia writes i heard the rumor as well but the story differed intel was not coming out with the tripling clock a clone from ibm was no rumour ibm s clock tripling chip was seen in some trade show last fall comdex or something i wasn t there all you people who are drooling after this chip do realize that it has no fpu just like sx that evil marketing ploy tm from intel don t you it has k of internal cache which probably is where the saved silicon real estate went because of some contract ibm is not allowed to sell its chips to third parties so these chips are unlikely to become available in any non ibm machines of course nothing prevents other companies from implementing a dx but nobody hasn t even come out with a real dx fpu and all clone yet although amd soon will segmented memory helps structure software
