Tejas (Score 1)

"Fisher has been on Intel's payroll for quite some time: he worked on the 486 cpu, the definition of mmx and sse instructions, and also on the Pentium III. The previous product that Fisher worked on was codenamed 'Tejas'. It was to be a 65nm version of the Pentium 4 with an extremely long pipeline of 40 to 50 steps, in order to achieve clock speeds of 7GHz or even higher." Wow, up to 50 stages in the pipeline, and they were close to tapeout! Sheesh, someone needs to secretly tape it out and put that thing on ebay with a tank of liquid helium.