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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (61513)6/11/1999 6:04:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 1575659
 
Ten - Re: "But does the K7 add more architected registers? Pentium III's SSE adds eight new 128-bit registers to the x86 architecture, a move that was described as "about time" by Microprocessor Report."

I don't know.

What Dirk is saying is that the original 3DNOW implementation was poor and inferior to the Intel SSE implementation.

Thus, that 9 month "lead" in which nothing but a few games supported 3DNOW has evaporated and Intel is winning !

AMD developers will now have to choose to develop 3DNOW or "new & improved 3DNOW" software - or BOTH - which will really dissipate their efforts.

Paul
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