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To: Elmer who wrote (70562)	9/1/1999 3:38:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1574006

Elmer - <I don't think they released any benchmarks of any kind.> Now that I think about it, I don't believe Intel publishes benchmarks except under NDA until a product is released. This is just my recollection, and I don't know the official policy. PB

To: Elmer who wrote (70562)	9/1/1999 12:22:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574006

Elmer, Re:"I was unaware that Intel was planning to announce benchmarks. Where did you hear this? In any event, I don't think they released any benchmarks of any kind. In the absence of live Coppermine demos (oops they did do a live 800MHz demo without cooling of any kind didn't they!) nevertheless the Coppermine is not available at this time so if you want to call it a foil (that was demonstrated live before an audience) then I offer no argument. In addition the Merced could also be called a foil at this point. It will not be in production any time soon and todays presentation of working systems was not a product introduction (Does that differ from the Athlon phantom introductions?). It does though show that Merced pre-production silicon is alive and well into the debug cycle. It makes the claims of mid 2000 production much more believable than they were a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn't you agree?" AT idf they were going to announce some benchmarks, that was my understanding. It was also listed as one of the things they would discuss in the digests. My reading on this is that the doubling the cache over a celeron does not give stellar performance improvements over a PIII if any. So all they talked about was MHZ - and here the news was great - perhaps they will be at 733 or 767 at intro. As far as Merced I agree- it shows that they did some excellent verification work. And yes Merced may start shipping in Q3 2000 as advertised and I would say this is very positive for Intel long term. regards, Kash