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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94587)	2/22/2000 12:58:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571885

jim, re:"willy" seems to me that clearly the FPU will suck compared to Athlon. However i have a feeling AMD may do something similar with the mustang core. The ATlon went way overboard with its HUGE FPU. The mustang may cut back and add a 3dnow++ approach. This may explain why mustang will be smaller and much lower power than current athlon core which will enable laptop apps as well. Sure gonna get interesting. regards, Kash

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94587)	2/22/2000 1:09:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Respond to of 1571885

Jim So If the Athlon is already theoretically over 42% faster clock for clock than Willamette at unoptimized code and Intel ramps Willamette to 3GHz (not the ALU, the core clock) Then wouldn't a dual core Athlon with each core running at 1.5GHz still be theoretically around 40% faster than Willamette? I agree MHz does sell but if all these calculations are accurate then AMD still seems to have some options (such as dual core) that could keep it competetive far longer than I had thought most people were expecting. If I was a CAD/CAM shop or 3Dmodeling/rendering shop and my revenue stream was tied to the speed of my workstations I would make it my business to know about the processors and I think I would take 40% faster over higher MHz any day, I hope that all educated users would too, and hopefully the educated users will direct the less educated consumers. How many people who know a lot about computers do you know that aren't consulted by less savvy friends and relatives before they make a computer purchase? So my point is that Willamette may not be the nuclear devastator that will wipe AMD out for good after all but rather little more than a marketing challenge (assuming AMD can make the necessary improvements to the Athlon core and platform). I worry a lot, it's a personality trait, and although I believe in AMD the FUD about Willamette was like a burr in my saddle, Willamette is most likely still a significant challenge but I am relieved by the revised Ace's article. I'll settle for that for now. :) Thanks, Epinephrine