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To: Saturn V who wrote (65013)	7/12/1999 9:25:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1579906

Saturn, <I shall clarify my statement. The K-6 and K-62 will become memory starved at very high MHZ because of sharing a common bus for L1 & L2.> Perhaps you shall clarify also what metric do you use to characterize the level of memory starvation, and what kind of workload are you talking about. Second, as it is well known, the market does not inderstand the "performance improvements", does not believe in benchmarks, and therefore does not care about it much. What the market does care for is a very simple metrics like MHz, cu.in, or alike. As you have seen, even some Product Engineers cannot sometimes compare what is bigger and what is smaller, and how many times smaller. What would you expect from them if the performance is defined on a multidimensional space. Therefore, as Jim McMannis says, "MHz sells". Take care, - Ali