Wow! This is news to me. Where did you discover this? I had no idea that pipeline stages were increased in newer G4s. Yes I remember vividly the January 2001 Pipeline Stage Pitch. I was in the Hall. k On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 02:28 PM, Mark M. Florida wrote: > Actually I think it went from 7 stages to 10. Anyone remember the big > show > in January 2001 when Apple showed the differences between the G4's > pipeline > and the P4's? They showed the G4's 7 stages finishing faster than the > P4's > 20 stages... Then they go and up the number of stages to 10? > Actually, the > current crop of high-speed G4s may have even more stages than that... > To > get the higher clock frequencies.