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To: Dan3 who wrote (5030)	8/14/2000 10:43:51 PM
From: TechieGuy-alt	Respond to of 275872

Dan, >>We'll know soon enough, but I think AMD's evolutionary designs with their 2-3 year time frame have been working out better than Intel's revolutionary designs with their 5 to 7 year time frames. By the time the Intel chips ship in quantity, the world they were planned for 6 to 8 years earlier has changed too much from what was expected. << Also, remember that 5 years ago, when this design started (and even 2 years ago, when the K7 architecture was reveled at the MPForum), the only thing that Intel was trying to beat was their own platform (probably the PIII at around 800-900MHz)! I would guess that 3 years into the design too much of the architecture of the P4 would have been finalized to really accomodate for the new and renewed (and unexpected) threat from AMD. The P4 was never designed to compete with the Athlon, it was designed to be better than a 800-900Mhz P3! TG