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To: Elmer who wrote (99034)	2/15/2000 5:58:00 AM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Even if AMD managed to get an SMP product to market, I'm not sure who would produce systems with it, and who would buy it - likewise a 64 bit offering. When I look at the broad involvement in the industry that Intel undertakes to enable their technology, and the advantages that OEMs and ISVs have in developing for that base, I don't see a big market hole that is crying out to be filled by AMD SMP technology. My point was simply that the EV6 bus was developed for Alpha 4-way machines and is obviously a very capable high performance SMP bus architecture - those are pretty fast machines. It is not any limitation of EV6 which is holding back AMD in the SMP space...