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To: Road Walker who wrote (123380)	8/31/2000 2:05:09 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) of 1570734

John, re P4 design approach I think you may have a point here. Most desktop apps run fine on a 500Mhz plus machine today. So the REAL need will likely be in new apps that are likely to FPU intensive. SSE2 seems pretty good as AMD will be copying it for sledgehammer. Unfortunartelt for Piv the new apps that might need SSE2 are not "real issues" today. Perhaps when broadband access is universal say 2-3 yrs it will seem like a smart move. Unfortunately if PIV is a dog at todays apps and benchmarks it may be the wrong product at the wrong time. In fact you can say similar things about the AThlon to an extent. Its FPU is awesome compared to PIII for certain benchmarks. But its integer per clock was SLOWER than K6-III's. And the oft talked about 200Mhz bus didn't do much either. Couple PIV with large die size and dual rambus and we may have recipe for a disaster for the desktop market. The good news for intel seems to be tualatin. Move the PIII to 512K cache, 400Mhz bus, and 0.13 micron and u probably have a pretty good chip. Just my .o2. regards, Kash

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