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To: Charles R who wrote (73838)10/4/1999 2:26:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Respond to of 1572324
 
Charles,
I'll say it again...
This fellow Dirk really did his homework.
The important things in designing an Intel killer chip....
1. Mhz, Mhz, Mhz and the scalability there of.
2. FPU
3. High yields, tweakability of the core and the ability to run with existing technology, i.e. SDRAM, while looking good doing it. And the ability to do even better on future technology.

Jim




To: Charles R who wrote (73838)10/5/1999 12:01:00 AM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572324
 
<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>

Ooops, I forgot a biggie here. Software! Today the x86 world of software is optimized for PII/PIII. Optimizations for Athlons (including the new instructions) should yield significant additional benefits.


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