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To: Epinephrine who wrote (96328)	3/2/2000 3:18:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573104

Epinephrine, There are all kinds of things that can be done to retrofit an existing design for low power. It is much easier to do this once the silicon is stable. There will be low power versions of Athlon in the future. Scumbria

To: Epinephrine who wrote (96328)	3/2/2000 10:54:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573104

Epi - Re: "In my opinion AMD did a superb job in specing out and balancing the power/performance tradeoffs in the Athlon. I think that the Athlon core will serve them well for years and this is in a large part due to the fact that they did a superb job of designing Athlon's core with a broad and balanced perspective towards long term viability. To limit Athlon's power now and then be stuck several years later after tweaks and process enhancements with a low power but also relatively low performance core would have been shortsighted. " Thank you for the explanantion which basically admits that AMD RUSHED the AthWIPEY into production. Thanks to AMD's inability to achieve HIGH SPEED at REASONABLE POWER - like Intel did - AMD is prevented from selling in to the High Performance Notebook market segment - the MOST LUCRATIVE segment (short of Servers and Workstations). This leaves all those huge profits to Intel. Paul