Intel Inside

In an issue of *Microprocessor Report*, there's an article about Intel's StrongArm-2 design, which says:

The usual course of action in such cases is to lengthen the pipeline, and this Intel did. Early ARM chips have a constipated three-stage pipeline with a heavily burdened final stage. The first StrongArm opened up the pipeline to five stages, relieving some congestion. Rather than disembowel this arrangement completely, Intel simply eliminated a few of the remaining pinch points.

It sounds as if the author isn't getting enough fiber in his diet ....