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To: vince doran who wrote (89791)	10/10/1999 8:19:00 PM
From: Gottfried	Respond to of 186894

As you requested, here is your reminder from Intel Corporation regarding our Q3 1999 Earnings Release, which will take place 10/12/99. From the horse's mouth G.

To: vince doran who wrote (89791)	10/10/1999 9:01:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Vince, several points regarding Coppermine performance: Intel estimates Coppermine 600EB getting 29 SpecInt95_base and 25 SpecFP95_base with RDRAM and SSE optimizations automatically generated with the compiler. That represents a 12% and 20% improvement over Katmai 600B. (Both processors were benchmarked on an RDRAM system w/ SSE optimizations.) In other words, the Katmai got 25.9 and 20.8. Intel also estimates that Coppermine 800EB can get 42% and 40% improvements over Katmai 600B. This means Coppermine 800EB will score 36.8 and 29.1, or show improvements of 26% and 16.4%, respectively. It's not a linear scale, but Intel said the performance scalability would have been worse w/out Coppermine. As for Athlon, I don't have the benchmark results available with me right now, but they claim very high performance improvements by going to a 266 MHz FSB (probably coupled w/ DDR SDRAM) and using prefetch and compiler optimizations of their own. While their claims may be legit, they may have another problem on their hands. Athlon is not compatible with SSE, so the prefetch and compiler optimizations are Athlon-specific. It's likely that the diverging instructions sets of Intel and AMD will resemble a "VHS vs. Beta" war, with AMD winding up with the Beta end of the stick. I don't think developers of an application would want to release one version specific for Intel SSE and another specific for AMD Athlon. Tenchusatsu