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To: Maxwell who wrote (37413)	9/24/1998 10:14:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) of 1572054

Maxwell, <K6-2 and topped PII in 3D performance but still trailing under Winstone and NT benchmark. The K7 will fix that and AMD will once again regain the leadership as the fastest CPU in the world.> I think you need to be more accurate here. First, it could be fastest CPU for WINDOWS computing only. However, this is not quite simple to outperform current x86 engines. As you probably know, all the x86 code shrinks eventually to something like [MOV EAX, blah-blah], that's it. The whole sophistication of x86 compilers ends up in a MOV to basically 3 and half registers: any programmer's fantasy of attempted parallelism ends up in a MOV to EAX. Period. If all the ideas get grounded into this enormous sequential dependency, then there is not much you can do to increase CPU performance on typical x86 codes. Therefore, I would not expect a tremendous breakthrough relative to Pentium-II core on clock-by-clock basis. The frequency scalability may be a different story. Since MHz sells, so it be. The battle will continue. Intelopers will not go away overnight, unfortunately. Regards, - Ali

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