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To: Process Boy who wrote (93743)	2/17/2000 2:05:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1580442

PB, But you obviously don't know squat about Willamette I have been very positive about Willamette for almost a year now. The garbage I heard yesterday was very annoying however. This is not a 3 GHz CPU, and probably isn't a 1.5 GHz CPU either. Intel has stated that it is 30% faster than Coppermine, and won't ship until Q4. Another thing to remember is that a very deep pipeline will be much harder to tune. This is because it undoubtably is very balanced already, and has a limited number of gates per stage to work with. Scumbria

To: Process Boy who wrote (93743)	2/17/2000 2:14:00 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580442

But you obviously don't know squat about Willamette, and you are obviously latching on to any wild negative rumor and posting it, without even researching it. I'm fairly disappointed. PB, I can not believe you are saying this....it was just a couple of weeks ago that Scumbria shocked the AMD longs with his post that the Willamette may pose a very serious threat to the Athlon and AMD's survival. Now this is before there was any real data available wrt chip. Nonetheless you and some of the other Intel longs greeted him like he was a long lost brother. Now with data coming out, he has changed his opinion and you all go nuts. Now Scumbria doesn't need defending and that's not what this post is all about. It just seems to me that you and the other guys need to relax.....clearly you are not confident yet with the Willamette and so you come over here trying to shoot any messenger who does not believe that Willamette is the ultimate in microprocessor technology. Time and information will make clear the Willamette's capabilities. In the meantime you and the rest of the guys might read more closely Scumbria's posts....you and I both know that he is very rarely wrong in his observations. ted