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To: Scumbria who wrote (93840)	2/17/2000 11:16:00 AM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572372

RE: <I don't think there is enough information available yet to make any judgements. Low clock speed can be compensated for with a wide datapath. I'll be happy to comment when the microarchitecture is made public.> Scumbria, Fair enough, but Ace's is claiming that if ISSE2 is widely embraced by developer's that Willamette will blow away any other processor out there on floating point code. Given that claim, Do you think that the strategy in general (independant of Willamette's actual microarchitecture) of relying so much on ISSE2 rather than other core enhancements is a wise decision, (I apologize if I am pushing the issue and you would still like to defer commentary until further details come out but I am just wanting your educated speculation WRT current information.) Thanks, Epinephrine