the Power4 microprocessor running at 1.1 gigahertz. It was an aggressive goal that would push us to innovate on all fronts and would require an extraordinary effort from each engineer. We would have to quadruple the speed in a single generation of microprocessor design and also meet a much lower power budget.
Our efforts to top the 1 gigahertz mark on the Power4 microprocessor had been a real struggle. We had spent nearly a year in high-level design defining the high-frequency microarchitecture. During the implementation phase, we tweaked timing paths until we were blue in the face. For that design, we didn’t even consider a power budget. These new goals made my head hurt just thinking about them.
Now that we understood the competition, we were able to share Kutaragi’s bold vision for the future of this little game machine.
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