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To: Process Boy who wrote (71550)	9/9/1999 8:15:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573988

PB, <I don't know what the long term holds, but after some checking with folks that I trust, aspirations for 64 bit extensions for x86 at this time are ahead of themselves. > I wonder if you have an unbiased observer here or an IA64 fan or someone who was part of the team that recommended that Intel not do 64-bit x86! <PPro is still doing EXTREMELY well Chuck! As close as I believe K7 and Coppermine will be in real world performance, I am not embarrassed that Intel got so much life out of a very efficient core!!! > I will give it you that PPro core is being pushed very aggressively - beyond what people thought was possible. I will credit that to - necessity is the mother of invention" <In the interim Coppermine will still be a very compelling solution, > I am sure if you give enough oomph to 486, it could have done reasonably with Pentium. What does that prove, I am not sure. You are comparing your competitors 0.25 (yes there is some 0.18 in there) chip with external cache to your 0.18 micron chip with built-in core and from the looks of it so far it appears that you will be barely keeping parity on MHz. <Pretty good ROI on a very successful core, don't you think? > Absolutely! And Intel will continue to make a lot more money on the core. And, some more if Wilamette doesn't make for 2000. <, AMD NEEDED THE K7 DESPERATELY! And it just pulls them close. It is not a blow away product, IMHO. > Replace AMD and K7 with Intel and Wilamette and the story wouldn't change! <Big die, manufacturing questions > Chalk that up to the usual product curve. I am sure you are aware how big Wilamette will look on 0.18! Chuck