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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (5284)	11/17/1996 4:51:00 AM
From: Nathan L.	of 186894

Brian: Why are you comparing AMD's K6 with Intel's Pentium Pro? AMD's K6 is a Pentium level chip. So what you are really saying is that it takes AMD 8.8 million transistors (K6) to do what Intel does in 3+ million transistors (Pentium). How many transistors can we expect an AMD equivelant to the Pentium Pro to have? 16+ million?? The fact that the K6 uses almost 3 times as many transistors as the Pentium sounds like a big negative when it comes to manufacturing for AMD. All of this '# of transistors' talk sounds alot like what IBM software developers used to brag to Microsoft about back in the 1980's. IBM would boast about their software in development having a large number of KLOC's (thousands of lines of code). Microsoft would say the actual number of KLOC's means nothing, but rather what they can accomplish does. In the end, Microsoft used many less lines of code to get an equal, if not better, software product. So I don't see how AMD using 8.8 million transistors to accomplish what Intel did in 3+ million shows any innovation. Complexity isn't necessarily synonymous with increased performance...it can actually hinder it. nate.

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