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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90500)	1/30/2000 4:05:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1572711

<(Disclaimer: I have absolutely no idea how well Merced actually performs, so don't ask me.)> <I don't know exactly how Willamette approaches FP, though. All I know is that everyone working on Willamette (including my roommate) is pretty excited about its potential FP performance.> Interesting! You claim not to know about Merced or Wilamette performance and implementation. In that context I am amused by your comments about Sledgehammer having to go back to the drawing board because of Wilamette. If your thinking is based not on Wilamette microarchitecture but on Wilamette MHz alone (which has come up quite nicely, to be sure) then I say you may be discounting your competitor. I am seeing a real close match here and it appears to me that the 1.2-1.4G level has been achieved by Thunderbird before Wilamette got there. I see AMD playing the lead role for Q1/Q2/Q3. Execution is probably going to determine who wins out Q4.