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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96393)	3/2/2000 7:08:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1572153

the 32-bit performance will fall behind Willamette and its follow-on, Northwood. Since there is very little solid info out about both of these, I don;t know hou you can say this. And on top of that, we don't know what clock speeds these chips will achieve. I think we may know more this fall, when K8 is presented, and Willamette is released / close to release. Joe

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96393)	3/3/2000 7:35:00 AM
From: Hans de Vries	Respond to of 1572153

Tenchusatu <Re>: new Sledgehammer information Now that Intel revealed Willamette's features like the 20-stage pipeline, the 2x ALU, etc., AMD will now know whether Sledgehammer's 32-bit performance will match up, or whether they'll have to go back to the drawing board (and slip the project beyond even late 2001). My guess is the latter, given the rumors that Sledgehammer would have been nothing more than an extended Athlon core. But I could be wrong. Intel disclosed Willamette's features way back in 1998. Message 13032700 They where well know to AMD even before the first tape-out of the Athlon. I'm quite sure that AMD considered them for it's new designs. Have you seen the latest Sledgehammer rumors: jc-news.com Sledgehammer: ...will be out in 2001 Q1 ...will have a full 32/64-bit core ...will have 2MB on-die cache ...will be on a 150nm process (partial shrink?) ...will be capable of 2GHz operation (at start?) Hans.