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To: Epinephrine who wrote (94630)	2/22/2000 11:47:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572124

Epinephrine - RE: "I know that's a big if but, if true, then all I can say is Wow!!" I think you should just consider it as only an "if". Intel doesn't have the GUTS to describe Willy's details this early. AMD disclosed the Athlon in October of 1998, nine months before it began shipping to customers and eleven months before it became available to purchase. All Intel is basically doing now is telling how to optimize for Willy's SSE. (And to avoid a certain FPU instruction that was used a lot by the Pentium and P6 processors.) I don't think this should be taken as a sign Willy's performance (pure FPU-wise) won't be great compared to the AThlon's. Since Intel hasn't given more details of Willy all that can be done is to speculate. Don't forget Willy has that fancy trace cache thingy, a 400MHz bus, and its chipset will use two channels of DRDRAM for up to 3.2 GB/s of memory bandwidth. And Scumbria has basically said MHz should be easy for Willy.