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To: Epinephrine who wrote (90329)	1/28/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574028

E - <Thanks again, I am enjoying talking to you :)> You are welcome, and same here. PB

To: Epinephrine who wrote (90329)	1/28/2000 8:55:00 PM
From: Y. Samuel Arai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574028

Epinephrine: If you haven't seen it already, some more info on the Willamette/Pentium IV can be found at the following link: aceshardware.com

To: Epinephrine who wrote (90329)	1/28/2000 10:46:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574028

Re: Without on die cache speeding up the processor clock brings diminishing gains in performance. AMD cannot afford to make their 1GHz processor look like a dud because it only performs marginally better than an 800... I believe this is one of the most important factors holding back AMD's release of faster processors. Also, VIA is late with the KX133, and there are no business SKU's yet - there isn't much point in shipping faster processors right now, other than to stay even with Intel. There has been some experimentation with DDR cache - this might accelerate higher speed releases. IMHO, right now, Intel is fighting a technical battle and AMD is fighting a marketing battle. AMD has got to get some business SKUs, and Intel has got produce more high speed parts. For the short term, AMD doesn't have to ship anything faster than 800 if AMD doesn't ship anything slower than 650. The majority of Intel's current production is 600MHZ and under. My guess is that AMD is trying to make those (600 and slower) parts unacceptable as business SKUs, forcing the OEMs to accept Athlons as business parts. Regards, Dan