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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: hmaly who wrote (93681)2/16/2000 10:20:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1570416
 
hmaly, <What impact will Willy have, no matter how good it is, to the consumer market.>

It was exactly a year ago when people were wondering why they'd ever need a Pentium III 500 MHz, especially the AMD supporters out there.

But hey, no one needs anything more than the fastest AMD can achieve, right?

<Secondly Willy will apparently require quite a few changes in software to run the new SSE instructions which won't happen overnight.>

It was exactly a year ago when people were wondering whether anyone would want to support SSE in Pentium III, especially the AMD supporters out there.

But hey, those x86-64 extensions in Sledgehammer are going to be an INSTANT hit with the software developers out there, just like those ever-popular "Athlon New Instructions."

Tenchusatsu
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