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To: Scumbria who wrote (76327)	10/20/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1573433

A must read... All things said and done...looks like Intel did a decent job with the old P6 core...made into coppermine... ixbt-labs.com Intel has shown their cards...now it's time for AMD to crank up the Athlon...which still rules the FPU world...even on .25u... " Conclusions Well, with the help of its Coppermine Intel managed to catch up with AMD Athlon almost bloodlessly. It had just to shift to a new 0.18 micron technology, which helped to limit the manufacturing expenses and to obtain higher working frequencies. No special architectural changes were needed. However, now we all know that Intel will hardly create anything faster and newer for Slot 1. The next mainstream processor based on Willamette core will be designed for an absolutely different processor socket. At the same time AMD's Athlon still has room for improvement. But even manufactured with 0.25 micron technology Athlon proves not a little worse than 0.18 micron Intel Pentium III. So, the last word belongs to AMD, which can easily leave Intel behind only with its higher clock frequencies. The major problem of the coming Coppermine will undoubtedly be the total absence of suitable mainboards for this processor. The constant delaying and postponing of the notorious i820 with the whole lot of different modern features may lead to very unpleasant consequences for Intel. It has every chance to lose its popularity and stable position and step back to let VIA occupy its place, though its chipsets are not yet ready to provide good performance close to that of Intel chipsets. Even for a Pentium III with 100MHz bus i440BX can't meet all the today's requirements, such as for instance AGP 4x and Ultra DMA/66 support. And after the launching of FC-PGA Coppermine intended for Low-End, integrated Socket370 systems based in i810 and i810e can easily disappear and then come into this world anew. After 25 October the dreams about powerful but low-cost systems may come true"