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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (66901)	7/29/1999 6:31:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574598

<Let's see. We've seen the benchmarks showing 40+% FPU performance from PIII to Athlon. So I think "7th gen" is fine here, assuming the benchmarks are correct.> Somehow, I doubt that a 40% increase in FPU alone will contribute to the same 30% increase in Quake 2 that we saw between Pentium MMX and Pentium II. <As fact as the integer (Business Winstone) performance, the 16% gain demonstrated by the PII there was all about L2 speed and had little to do with core architecture.> Architecture includes consideration for L2 cache design. It's silly to say, "Oh, that 16% gain is only due to the L2 cache" because P6 architecture first introduced the backside L2 cache, among other things. (Funny how AMD didn't have a backside L2 cache until the K6-III, the last of their "sixth-generation" processors.) <If this is true [$55 to make a Mendocino] there is NO WAY Intel is making money on those Celerons selling for $70 retail.> Here's the prices for Celeron at the intro of the 500 MHz version (taken from news.com 500 MHz: $167 466 MHz: $114 433 MHz: $93 400 MHz: $73 366 MHz: $69 333 MHz: $67 I don't know how many Celerons are sold at each speed grade. My guess is more half will be sold at 433 MHz and above. Those speed grades are sold at prices that are unarguably profitable. The rest are on the trailing end of the price-vs-speed graph, indicating that their production will be ramped down. Tenchusatsu