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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (67574)	8/4/1999 9:24:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574680

Watson, I haven't seen the AMD design point but doubt it is as good. Intel is just an all round smarter company. The PIII architecture is far superior to K7, and there is every reason to believe that their process technology is better too. Scumbria

To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (67574)	8/4/1999 11:21:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1574680

WATSON, <I looked over the numbers. It's hard to compare.> Yes, AMD has as much as two times more transistors per area than Intel. It is really hard to compare how their inferior litography can handle this many :) <So the power figures are hard to compare but both (especially Athlon) seem very high. It looks like the 650MHz part would be about 50 Watts.> It looks. And how dare some people are talking about 750MHz! How silly they are:) :) :) However, ss you might know from Elmer (to whom no evidences were delivered), all these are just foils. Projected foils. Projections can be optimistic, you know. They also can be conservative :) <Is that why they have to limit it to 1.7V??> Why do you think that this is correct? My best pal Engel told us about 2.5V, and process "expert" Yousef agrees that this would be in line with K6 failures. Right? <my point was to compare the device designs at .18um groundrules (Athlon vs. Coppermine) and not the chip designs.> As Ph.D and process expert Yousef has told us on MANY occasions, there is no such thing as microarchitecture, process is everything. Right? P.S. Please note from salutation that my attitude towards you has shifted :)