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To: Jack L. Dlugach who wrote (641)	7/9/1996 10:46:00 PM
From: Dean Amo	of 1586126

Book to bill in at .91. Jack- >Intel's strategy is now to build the cpu's with the video and sound peripherals as part of the cpu to get the extra efficiency. What you are talking about is the MMX instruction set. It is a set of instructions that allows calculations used in 3D graphics, video, and audio to be processed at 8X what a pentium can do today. Go to WWW.INTEL.COM and search for MMX, they will go into technical detail of how it works. Software vendors will have to develop programs in order to take advantage of MMX. There will also still need to be supporting hardware, for example D/A (Digital to Analog) converters for audio. Intel has licensed MMX to AMD. With 0.18 micron process (Texas Instruments), 125 million transistors can fit on a chip, compared to about 5 million for a pentium. There is plenty of room for multiple processors and glue logic on one chip. Ball grid array packages allow higher pin counts. Processors using 0.18 micron process can be made to clock at 500MHz + and run on 1V or 1.8V. Go to WWW.TI.COM if anyone is interested in reading about this process. AMD will shine again, and I'll be there. There are many temporary reasons for AMD's depressed stock price. Great value play.

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