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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (108186)	4/28/2000 12:25:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Tenchusatsu I really don't think AMD's Sledgehammer will be able to compete against Foster in 32-bit performance, nor will it be able to compete against McKinley in 64-bit performance. That remains to be seen. I am surprised that you don't think that Sledgehapmmer will be able to compete with Foster. I think AMD is going to try to stay competitive with Foster using the Athlon line of products. The next generation is not going to be any worse running 32 bit code. Regarding Itanium, its even harder to compare it with Itanium, since both are unreleased products. Joe

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (108186)	4/28/2000 8:56:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573433

Re: I really don't think AMD's Sledgehammer will be able to compete against Foster in 32-bit performance, nor will it be able to compete against McKinley in 64-bit performance... Against Foster, AMD will be marketing a 64 bit processor against the "old technology" 32 bit Foster at the same price. Against McKinley, AMD's Sledgehammer, unlike the IA-64 dependent McKinley, will execute existing installed code better than than in place equipment demonstrating an immediate across the board performance gain while offering many of the "64 bit" capabilities of McKinley. Will McKinley beat Sledgehammer on optimized code? Quite possibly. Is Esperanto a more efficient language than English? It sure is. Did Esperanto displace English as a language or did the inertia of the "installed base" make English more successful? Both strategies have their strong points, time and relative quality of execution will demonstrate which is the more effective. Regards, Dan PS - What if Sledgehammer beats McKinley on optimized code?