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To: Paul Engel who wrote (70841)	9/2/1999 11:19:00 PM
From: Rob Young	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574430

Paul, Good sourcing there! <"So far, and in its early stages, it is as fast as AMD's Athlon using the SpecINT benchmark but shows far better performance in SpecFP. "> So.. maybe they will clean up critical paths and get Merced to 1 GHz late next year... but will Athlon still only be at 1 GHz in copper? Will Intel face a bit of embarassment if Merced and Athlon are neck and neck on int at the same clock frequency but Athlon is at 1.2 GHz when Merced is introed and of course Athlon runs the majority of IA32 binaries far faster than Merced... so why bother with Merced? Only so many will want the latest and greatest over-priced toy. Athlon will be far cheaper. Very interesting year coming up if nothing else. Rob