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To: kash johal who wrote (98635)	3/15/2000 11:44:00 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570482

Kash Re..<<<I do agree that AMD will have to essentially support SSE - even if its providing identical instructions that need some simple map to intel SSE conversion. It adds more complexity and risk to AMD stock ownership and will likely be an issue by end of 2001. >>>>>>> Kash, I really don't see Scumbias concerns about SSE and 3dnow as that pivotal to the future of AMD. Why? 1.. The x-box will use a special version of Winows 2000.; not Windows millenimun; which will be out this summer. 2... You can bet the code is already written for millenium and at the time MSFT was writing the code, AMD not Intel, was the processor in x-box; thus 3dnow according to your theory would be supported; not SSE. 3.... Certainly MSFT would have to support both instruction sets not only for sales purposes, but also to avoid more monopoly charges. 4... MSFT probably needs AMD more than ever, considering Intels efforts to push linux in servers.