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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (71534)	9/9/1999 4:59:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573892

Tenchusatsu, <it's apparent to me that you're "inside sources" at Intel isn't giving you the full picture, and rightly so.> I am pretty sure that for any program, before release, very few people will have all the relevant data and sometimes even senior people working on the program do not know about it (except for the politically savvy ones). So, I guess, I am agreeing with your statement. Not because my sources wanted to mislead me but because they themselves may not know the full picture. Now, having said that, what I do know is that this was one of the most terribly managed programs and designers kept throwing gates at problems and adding features (even the multi-threading aspect) along the way. I know you are new in the industry but do you know what the implicatons of such a design are? Check around with Wilamette guys and see what happens to the performance of a deeply pipelined multi-threaded CPU if mutlti-threading is turned off. And, what happens to MHz scalability as people through gates at design as an after-thought. Competition is not sitting and futzing around as Intel grapples with these issues. When everything is said and done, IMO, there is a distinct possiblity that Wilamette would need a quick follow-on for Intel to stay in the high-end CPU game. As things stand right now, it can be one more Merced - nearly obsolete before release. To be sure, 12 months is a long time in this industry and a lot can change from now until Wilamette is relesed. (including the low probability things such as things going more favorably for Wilamette) Chuck