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To: Richard Habib who wrote (27835)	3/10/2000 2:49:00 AM
From: FruJu	Respond to of 213182

I'm not sure I'd want to depend on AMD process engineering - from the specs it appears the Athlon 1G pulls a whopping 60+ watts. By contrast the PIII 1G comes in at 30+ watts. That's usually more a function of the chip architecture than the underlying process technology assuming they're both built on similar ground rules. AMD didn't optimize the original Athlon microarchitecture for power consumption at all. It was a balls-to-the-wall effort to beat Intel at the high end (which they arguably have been very successful at). I imagine their second round will concentrate more on the power side of things, particularly now that they've pretty much exhausted their K6-III line in the notebook world. If IBM can really produce a 600Mhz G4, I think it would be obvious why MOT would block that contractually if they could. It would seriously cut into MOT semi revenue. I guess we should all be buying MOT stock instead of AAPL then! :-)

To: Richard Habib who wrote (27835)	3/10/2000 4:34:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Question for Richard about watts: I'm not sure I'd want to depend on AMD process engineering - from the specs it appears the Athalon 1G pulls a whopping 60+ watts. By contrast the PIII 1G comes in at 30+ watts. So, I just bought parts to build an Athlon 600Mhz computer. I'm well aware the thing is a furnace, so I bought a quality power supply and a quality case and I'm adding an additional quality fan for. The additional expenditure was only abut $50. Of course I can see the advantage of a cooler, lower wattage chip, especially in portables. But it doesn't seem to me that it would be a big problem in workstations or desktops. Why would this be a problem on workstation or desktop computer?