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For those of you who were interested in the P6 (next generation Pentium), here is an article from PowerPC News: INTEL P6 WILL HAVE FOUR INTEGER UNITS (January 6th 1995) Intel Corp's forthcoming 6m transistor P6 successor to the Pentium is to have four integer execution units - arithmetic-logic units - compared with two in the Pentium. This will require it to work rather like a chess program, looking many moves ahead and speculatively executing many instructions. Using data flow analysis, it will also look at the code coming into the processor and analyse it to minimise data dependencies. It may also add some instructions to the set in the Pentium. Initially to be clocked at 133MHz, the P6 will not be pin-compatible with the Pentium in its first iteration. It is expected to have a 32kB first-level cache and a 256kB or 512kB second-level cache integrated with the processor. (C) Computergram International | Select 5000 for more information