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To: Rob Young who wrote (70844)	9/2/1999 11:52:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574478

Rob, Re:"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." Remember that Spec FP is very cache size and speed sensitive. Should be interesting to see the numbers for a 700-750Mhz Athlon ultra with 4-8Mb DDRSRAM cache. In addition once cooled to 40C such an Athlon Ultra should overclock to 1Ghz with Kryotech. I would be willing to bet that this would give Merced or anything else for that matter a run for the money for 1/4 of the Merced costs. Regards, Kash

To: Rob Young who wrote (70844)	9/3/1999 12:46:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574478

Rob - re: "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? " Athlon ISN'T at 1 GHz and it ISN'T in COPPER. Re: "... so why bother with Merced? Only so many will want the latest and greatest over-priced toy. Athlon will be far cheaper." Sure - try stringing 64 Athlons together in an SMP server - or 256 - or 512. Once again, AMD's advantage will be that it is CHEAPER than Intel. That did AMD a lot of damn good with Kdawg 62's and Kmart 63's - have you seen their LOSSES recently ? Paul