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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (93386)	2/15/2000 8:36:00 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1571401

Jim and thread, well found a couple of scraps on this "Intel magic bean" day. 1) How about Athlon 850 on Japan Gateway front page? gw2k.co.jp gw2k.co.jp gw2k.co.jp 2) VIA has new KX133 board list up. Now 22 KX133 motherboards listed. via.com.tw steve

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (93386)	2/15/2000 11:34:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571401

Jim, I read the Anand article, I found it more amusing than edifying wrt Slick Willy and what was actually going on. Especially this part, from anandtech.com The demo Intel showed consisted of little more than showing a 1.5GHz Willamette running their Frequency ID Utility which was extremely disappointing since they failed to even run any commonplace benchmarks on the system. We?ve been sitting here with a member of the Tom?s Hardware crew and we?ve been discussing the reasons behind Intel not even running any benchmarks on the setup, the main conclusion we?ve come to is that because of the nature of the CPU as a first revision silicon product it probably couldn?t run anything more than the frequency ID utility without sacrificing stability. Chances are that they didn?t want to demonstrate a 1.5GHz chip that would crash upon entering Winstone or SYSMark. If anything, they just wanted to show that they are on top of the clock speed battle, especially with AMD just recently shipping the 850MHz parts and their demonstration of a 1.1GHz Thunderbird. Emphasis on extremely in the original. Note also Joseph Yu's "We'll ship hundreds of thousands this year". Well, out of Intel's vaunted 30meg/quarter production, sounds like Willy will be about as common in Y2K as 800mhz Coppermines are now. Not that AMD should rest on their laurels, but there seems to be more than a little smoke being blown here. Cheers, Dan.