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To: Richard Wang who wrote (64469)	7/8/1999 11:05:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583677

Richard, <On the Willamette thing> I feel somehow comfortable with or without Willamette or whatever it will be. There is not much can be done in terms of x86 architecture to outperform K7. The Pentium-II/III/XXX bus is already fairly optimized, and their internal pipelines are quite busy. Any additions like all-scary "trace cache" or anything else will help to shave few internal cycles but the thing will still stall most of the time waiting for memory; nothing will help to boost performance "vastly". Even 2MB on-chip caches, since Microsoft's memory-bloated model will eat up any possibility for decent data locality. Period. I tend to think that Intel has lost their performance lead forever. Now the manufacturability, volume, and true customer relations will determine the success or failure of a CPU. Unfortunately for AMD, Intel may have some lead in some areas :) Regards, - Ali