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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (60855)	6/7/1999 6:38:00 PM
From: fyo	Respond to of 1573921

Kevin: Did you ever think that maybe it is built largely on Digital technology? Yes and I certainly hope that some amount of DEC/Alpha technology made it into the chipsets. However, I am not very hopeful. When the Irongate chipset was originally presented (at the uP forum in late '98), AMD representatives said that it was based largely on a VIA chipset. The Irongate chipset still retains the Northbridge/Southbridge architecture that Intel is moving away from. On the positive side: Some of the HD benchmarks on the engineering K7s have been extremely good. This could imply that some major improvements have been made - especially since this is one of the major weaknesses with current Super7 chipsets. I am not too familiar with the Alpha/DEC motherboard architecture, other than I do know that they use some sort of North/South-bridge design. I still prefer something like the 'crossbar' architecture of the SGI Octane. --fyodor