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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (94496)	12/21/1999 11:00:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

CRUS, Remember how some of us expected the Athlon to be completely superior to Cumine? Turns out the Cumine platform is neck and neck with the current Athlon platform (except in FPU intensive applications). Good response. The thing is that I think Intel has a lot more cards to play in terms of ways to speed up a given chip. For example, discussed on these threads have been: 1. Large, on-chip, at speed caches that Intel can do and AMD apparently can't. 2. Notched gates, that I don't completely understand, but sounds like Intel gets more clock speed out of this goodie. No such thing from AMD. So, they've taken a P6 core that's not as advanced architecturally as Athlon, and made it just as fast/faster. I just don't think AMD has the weapons to gain back lost ground like Intel does. Who would expect them to? So, if Coppermine can scale with Athlon, it's a dogfight. When Willamette shows up, and if it's architecturally far superior to either company's chips of today, it's game over. JMO. Tony