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To: kash johal who wrote (63499)	6/26/1999 7:22:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571455

Re: "Re:"HP has the fastest microprocessor on the planet and they aren't comatose." Really Elmer thats great news!!! What are the SPEC numbers for the chips. Just curious." The SpecInt95 number is 34.0 compared to 30.3 for the 21264. You can review it yourself at: specbench.org EP

To: kash johal who wrote (63499)	6/26/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571455

Kash - Re: "And remember Cu is less than 6 months away." We'll add that slogan to SCUMbria's "June is only x weeks away" ! And YOU Know what AMD brought us in JUNE , don't you? 1. A "stealth" Athlate launch - with IBM, Compaq, Gateway and CyberSnatch all ABSENT from the Launch Podium 2. Another LOSS - this one $200,000,000.00 without the qualifying "SUBSTANTIAL" monicker ! But everything at AMD looks great - their future is assured. Paul

To: kash johal who wrote (63499)	6/26/1999 7:48:00 PM
From: fyo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571455

Kash - Re: It will be interesting to compare with SPEC numbers for the workstation K7's with 8MB full speed caches running DDRDRAM at 266Mhz. If they get these clocking in the 700-800Mhz range I suspect it will smoke the current top dog. I seriously hope you don't think that. If you do, maybe you should take a look at SPEC.org numbers: HP9000/N4000 (440MHz PA-RISC 8500) SPECfp : 48.7 / 51.4 SPECint: 30.8 / 34.0 OUCH! Let's take a look at some speculative, approximate K7 numbers and then let's mess it up completely by doing some totally unwarranted linear extrapolation (from 550MHz --> 800MHz): SPECfp : 23 --> 33.5 SPECint: 25 --> 36.4 As you can see, the K7 (err.. Athlon) may get close in integer, but it won't get ANYWHERE near the PA-RISC in floating point. And I certainly wouldn't call this 'smoking the current top dog'... Ok, ok, so this isn't the K7 with PC266 DDRDRAM and 8MB full-speed cache (which may be DDRDRAM), but I still don't see how you are going to make up the HUGE gap in floating point performance. --fyodor