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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Richard Wang who wrote (64469)7/8/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (3) of 1583685
 
Richard, <On the Willamette thing>
I feel somehow comfortable with or
without Willamette or whatever it will be.
There is not much can be done in terms
of x86 architecture to outperform K7. The
Pentium-II/III/XXX bus is already fairly
optimized, and their internal pipelines are
quite busy. Any additions like all-scary
"trace cache" or anything else will help
to shave few internal cycles but the thing
will still stall most of the time waiting
for memory; nothing will help to boost
performance "vastly".
Even 2MB on-chip caches, since Microsoft's
memory-bloated model will eat up any
possibility for decent data locality.
Period.

I tend to think that Intel has lost
their performance lead forever. Now
the manufacturability, volume, and
true customer relations will determine
the success or failure of a CPU.
Unfortunately for AMD, Intel may have
some lead in some areas :)

Regards,
- Ali
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