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To: Process Boy who wrote (93561)	2/16/2000 12:34:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572310

PB, Re:"willamette" Well i am impressed and unimpressed. The impressive bits: 1. Mhz sells. Intel by double pumping the integer units will have awesome scores for business apps. 2. SIMD instructions. Intel has gone all out on this. Once folks optimize for these new instructions the performance will be excellent. Very similar to the Altivec approach by Mot. 3. Die size. Apparently die size is NOT huge. Therefore should be manufacturable at modest costs. The unimpressive bits. 1. FPU. Doesn't compare to Athlon. x87 Latency is terrible. Fxch(?) no longer free. 2. Onchip cache. The implication is that the l2 cache runs at 1/2 speed - similar to cumine. Will be a disadvantage to AThlons full speed l2 cache. 3. DRDRAM all the way. I don't need to say any more do i?? ------------------------------------------------------------ In summary AMD has nothing to fear. If they can deliver Athlons at matching Mhz they will be behind in Integer and way ahead on FP. And Sledgehammer with essentially 2 Athlons on chip will be MUCH faster than Willy. regards, Kash