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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94730)2/23/2000 12:39:00 AM
From: Epinephrine  Read Replies (1) of 1575621
 
RE: <Create benchmarks that emphasize integer...special instructions etc.>

Jim,

I think you are right about scaling, further though I think that Intel has convinced itself that the internet and servers are tantamount, in this vein they have elected to optimize integer functionality and focus on increasing bandwidth etc "Willamette is 64-bits wide, and delivers 3.2 GB/s of bandwidth." (from Johan's article) and RDRAM (streaming) Willamette will obviously be good at what Intel is focusing on but that leaves a heck of a market for AMD to excel in, (CAD/CAM, 3DModeling/Rendering, Scientific and other floating point intensive number cruching, gaming) I may be off base but I think the FPU was second priority to Intel for Willamette.

Thanks,

Epinephrine
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