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To: kapkan4u who wrote (115156)	6/9/2000 12:16:00 PM
From: EricRR	Respond to of 1572507

Add to that a half speed decoder and Willy, as a server part, does not look so great either. This is what I suspected. Willy fits perfectly into a bigger picture: Intel doesn't have good technical people in decision making roles. There is now other way to explain the pattern of the last year.

To: kapkan4u who wrote (115156)	6/9/2000 5:19:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572507

Kap re <<These first Willy benchmarks look right on the money to me. The Willy architectural performance on FP benchmarks would be slower than PIII: same single-issue FPU minus additional branch mispredict and trace cache penalties. I estimate a 1.3GHz Willy would only be as fast as 1GH PIII on FP.>> I really want to believe you and I have no technical reason of my own not to, but it just seems to be one of those "too good to be true" stuff. I hope you are correct :) Sanders only claim with regard to Willamette was that clock for clock, Athlon will be "competitive". To me it also seems possible, if not likely that, Athlon will be able to stay close on the MHz front. Considering the big die size of Willy along with RMBS, AMD is looking better than ever. Mani