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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (73830)10/4/1999 2:17:00 PM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572295
 
Jim,

<Looks like Intel has figured AMD would sit pat on the Athlon core...>

I don't know about Intel but definitely that is something that comes across from lot of the Intel longs. I guess it is hard to appreciate the difference between what can be done with brand new core versus end-of-life core.

<Per Scumbria...the Athlon core is very tweakable and VERY scalable>

I remember Scumbria hammering down the importance of speed path work for a new core.

Going forward, other than MHz, the largest performance improvements will come from chipsets, IMHO, due to:
- bug fixes in Athlon/chipsets (removes the workarounds)
- chipset enhancements like PC133, AGP-4, dual-bank memory designs, etc

Chuck



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (73830)10/4/1999 3:25:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 1572295
 
Jim - RE: "and per my sources (and Anand) yields very well."

And Paul was saying a 184mm2 chip would be likely to have low yields.