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To: niceguy767 who wrote (90469)	1/30/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572506

Re: "Your comment here sorta reminds me of most of the Intellabee comments around the Athlon motherboard problems last August and September. AMD's current stated objective is achieving 30%, compared to their current 17% share, of the microprocessor market by the end of 2001." NiceGuy, what's so hard about SMP? I'm typing this on a dual processor Celeron system. Intel has made SMP available from the getgo. In fact, they have never shipped a P6 generation chipset that didn't support SMP. Now AMD has "delayed" their chipset until 2001. That's at least a year away, maybe more. Anyone familiar with the chipset design cycle would know that means they've barely started, if they've started at all. They need dual processor systems out there to make inroads into workstations and server markets. The difficulty in implementing SMP just underscores the questionable decision they made in copying DEC's EV6 architecture. It may be very efficient in higher end systems but it's obviously difficult and expensive to do on a more modest scale, which was the criticism from the start. Why doesn't it work now if Intel's "inferior architecture" worked from the very beginning? The Athlons with large on-die L2 will not shine until there is a SMP box to stick them into. Until then there will be modest return for the increased die size. Regarding your other statements about the PIII, I have come to learn that you are suffering from an extreme case of in one ear and out the other so I see no need to refute your continued erroneous claims. EP