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To: Gerald Walls who wrote (97067)	1/21/2000 4:21:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Gerald, ...Thunderbird," said W.J. Sanders III, AMD's chairman and CEO. I'm sure it's named after a car or a plane, but the first thing that popped into my head was "cheap wine." And a bad headache. Who do you think will get a headache over it? Tony

To: Gerald Walls who wrote (97067)	1/21/2000 5:02:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Gerald, I think I'm one of the few people out there who isn't very worried about AMD's 64-bit Sledgehammer. If it's nothing more than an Athlon core with 64-bit extensions and a revamped floating-point unit, it WILL fall miserably behind Intel's upcoming Willamette and Foster (and their proliferations). Already Sledgehammer is retreating from their original positioning back during the October Microprocessor Forum. Back then, AMD was announcing the x86-64 extensions in the same session as other processors that are meant to enter the high-end workstation and server space, such as Merced, Alpha EV8, Power4, and SPARC64 V. The AMD guy (Fred Weber) even took a few subtle jabs at Merced, saying "Instruction set is one of the weaker methods for improving performance." Now Sanders is saying that Sledgehammer won't compete in the server space? Tenchusatsu