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To: Steve Porter who wrote (67835)	8/6/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575420

WATSONYOUTH <I don't know the complexity of the ALTIVEC instruction set > Steve Porter <It's nightmare. It's mmx, sse, 3dnow! and a little more all in one. It's huge. It doubled the die size of the powerpc all by itself.> So that's 80mm2 for PPC in .25um with AltiVec and 40mm2 without it. Very large relative increase but in absolute terms - not a concern. Compare Pentium III at 140mm2 in .25um with SSE. And apparently AltiVec in a RISC architecture is far superior to SSE in x86. I would have to say that IBM blundered again in not embracing AltiVec. Any comments?? THE WATSONYOUTH