Accelenation has posted an Intel Pentium 4 3.2E "Prescott" review
To allow the Pentium 4 to achieve higher clock rates, Intel had to increase the length of the pipeline. On the Prescott the pipeline has been extended from 20 stages to 30 stages. This would normally decrease the IPC (Instructions Per Cycle) of the processor, but Intel has other tricks up their sleeve.Read more