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To: Scumbria who wrote (84428)	12/30/1999 7:28:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573092

SCUMbria - Re: "Designs like K7, Coppermine, Willamette, and Merced are using huge amounts of real estate to achieve incremental performance gains. " Doesn't the Sony Playstation II EMOTION CPU chip occupy MORE THAN TWICE the real estate of a Coppermine ? Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (84428)	12/31/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1573092

<The embedded processor market is going through a very large transition. Performance is now close to (or in some cases greater) than desktop processors. The Sony Playstation 2 with a MIPS based processor actually has more compute power than any x86 processor. > This is true - especially on the consumer and communications designs. I am familiar with a few communications startups working on multi-CPU single chip (ASIC) implementations that have more power than anything that Intel or AMD will get to in the next couple of years.