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To: Scumbria who wrote (93830)	2/17/2000 10:48:00 AM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) of 1572364

Scumbria and thread, My apologies if this has been posted already: aceshardware.com I was wondering if you could comment on the following parts of the article. "For the Pentium IV or Willamette, Intel has decided to promote ISSE2 as an alternative to x87. The x87 FPU performance of the Pentium IV will not be very high, clock for clock. The evidence:..."(from the bottom of the first page) And "As the Willamette is supposed to start at 1.3 or 1.4 GHz, that could mean that the Willamette is mostly faster because it boasts higher clockspeeds, not higher IPC. In other words, AMD's Thunderbird should be able, to compete well with the Willamette clock for clock. That is unless, however, Intel makes sure support for the new ISSE2 instructions is superb" (From the conclusion at the bottom of the second page) What are your feelings as a chip architect regarding Intel's apparent decision to forgo significant X87 FPU enhancements in favor of ISSE2 Optimizations? Any comments from you would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Epinephrine

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