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To: Process Boy who wrote (85072)	1/5/2000 1:43:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573927

PB, I've been dying to ask you how you see K7 roadmap stacking up against Willamette? I'm a strong believer that desktop processor performance is limited by memory latency. I therefore do not believe that Willamette architectural features (like trace caches) will give it any advantage. The one piece of speculation about Willamette that is interesting, is that it will provide direct support for multi-threaded software. If so, multi-threaded software may run much faster on Willamette than it does on Athlon. As far as MHz goes, I suspect that Willamette will be faster- mostly due to faster Intel transistors. Scumbria