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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94730)	2/23/2000 12:31:00 AM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575426

Jimmy, re:"Is it possible that Intel designed Willy...to... 1. Scale at all costs even with certain trade offs that can be made up for... 2. If the the FPU suffers a little we'll make it up with an SSE type set of instructions? 3. Create benchmarks that emphasize integer...special instructions etc. Something tells me Intel had to make some trade offs to get the Willy to scale...? " Well i sure hope so. But we don't have enuff data yet. But if they bet on sse2 to solve the FPU performance I suspect it was a mistake. regards, Kash

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94730)	2/23/2000 12:39:00 AM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575426

RE: <Create benchmarks that emphasize integer...special instructions etc.> Jim, I think you are right about scaling, further though I think that Intel has convinced itself that the internet and servers are tantamount, in this vein they have elected to optimize integer functionality and focus on increasing bandwidth etc "Willamette is 64-bits wide, and delivers 3.2 GB/s of bandwidth." (from Johan's article) and RDRAM (streaming) Willamette will obviously be good at what Intel is focusing on but that leaves a heck of a market for AMD to excel in, (CAD/CAM, 3DModeling/Rendering, Scientific and other floating point intensive number cruching, gaming) I may be off base but I think the FPU was second priority to Intel for Willamette. Thanks, Epinephrine