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To: kash johal who wrote (93881)	2/17/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571373

Kash, <Also the dual channell RDRAM shoots them in both feet for most desktop solkutions.> And the alternative would be? Dual DDR? Wow, now that's going to be one expensive platform (although the cheaper DDR memory itself may or may not make up for it). Single DDR? No, I don't think Intel wants to cripple Willamette with a substandard solution. Yeah, the dual-Rambus thing will be rather expensive, too much so for desktops in late 2000, but then again, we're not going to see THAT many Willamettes in that time-frame anyway. "Hundreds of thousands" seems just right for a dual-Rambus platform. I'm sure in 2001, we'll see other chipsets supporting Willamette and its follow-on, Northwood. Until then, I think the dual-Rambus decision is a good one, especially since Rambus is here and DDR isn't, at least not yet. Tenchusatsu

To: kash johal who wrote (93881)	2/17/2000 3:33:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Respond to of 1571373

Kash, So what do you think about the possibility that AMD will improve 3DNow. If they did then wouldn't Athlon thrash Willamette on comparably optimized code (3DNow for Athlon / SSE for Willamette) as well as unoptimized code (unoptimized for either processor)? Am I reading to much into this? because I would think that AMD will extend 3DNow and in that case it sounds like the Athlon would be far more capable at floating point code at least on the whole. That is unless SSE2 takes off and 3DNow does not. And there is the big bet on Intel's part because Ace's article makes it sound like there were no real enhancements to Willamette's general x87 FPU? Thanks, Epinephrine