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To: Dan3 who wrote (67778)	8/5/1999 11:40:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Respond to of 1575173

<I believe that they're cooperating on processor design, and that they've gotten over the spat regarding the extra instructions that Motorola wants to include. I'd be surprised if there wasn't considerable information exchange regarding how to make the things they've jointly designed.> The design partnership dissolved soon after this chip taped out. I agree that the three companies will have to come to some cooperative agreement. However, from a processing point of view, there is no such information exchange <On the other hand, there is a article in the current issue of Performance Computing that talks about IBM's upcoming 1GHZ processor in no certain time frame - meanwhile, all they're going to ship near term is 450MHZ - so in answer to your question of who's going to help motorola help AMD, I guess it's not going to be IBM!> Yea - it seems like a lot of companies are throwing around the GHz label indiscriminately. However, the 4660MHz PPC chip is a result of an antiquated core design and not reflective of IBM's processing capabilities. I never understood why IBM didn't commit the resources for a totally new design for PPC. Until relative recently, the PPC was still competitive with Pentium III. While on the subject, can anyone explain to me why 466MHZ PPC running at 2v with same Ll cache size consumes less tan 6W vs 25W for Pentium. Also 40mm2 vs 140mm2 Is this just pure RISC vs X86 instructions?? Something doesn't add up. THE WATSONYOUTH