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To: Process Boy who wrote (76758)	10/25/1999 1:46:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1572750

PB - RE: "I disagree. Miles to go before Athlon breaks out of the Enthusiast category, i.e., Server, Workstation, Corporate IT accounts." That is what future, FASTER versions of the Athlon platform are aimed at. "Athlon is still in the planning stages for platform implementation for these markets." True. According to some, we should find out more at Comdex about these future Athlons. "One big item Intel has in its favor over AMD is PLATFORM. I don't see AMD excelling in this category yet, given Intel's recent missteps in the area themselves." That misstep Intel had shows Intel can be incompetent in that area. And DRDRAM will cost more, so whenever it DOES come out, those PCs will cost more until Intel comes out with their PC133 chipset which may be the time when the next Athlon chipset also with PC133 support becomes available which should be faster than the current Athlon platform which will make the Athlon the faster platform again. But I agree that Intel's many platforms (i810E, i820, and i840) is a clear advantage over AMD's lone Irongate.

To: Process Boy who wrote (76758)	10/25/1999 3:01:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572750

Re: One big item Intel has in its favor over AMD is PLATFORM... Have you looked at the benchmarks at Sharky's carefully? It's the most thorough comparison of PC100 and Rambus to date. Rambus shows virtually no advantage over PC100. The whole Rambus platform will have to be junked, or else Intel will give up a major performance advantage to AMD which uses DDR as the memory bus for its platform. Even PC133 shows more of a performance increase over PC100 than Rambus 800 does. DDR200/266 memory talking to Athlon on its DDR200/266 backside bus will have a substantial advantage over camino/carmel. The DDR bus Athlon uses has been proven by years of experience running multiprocessor Alpha systems. Until Intel either implements DDR or comes up with something else that can compete with it, the platform advantage lies with AMD's Athlon. Rambus is a complete disappointment and will cripple the Intel platform until it is replaced. The EV6 platform with its use of DDR buses is what will provide Athlon the advantage it needs to move into the enterprise. Dan