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To: milo_morai who wrote (122529)	8/21/2000 2:49:42 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578134

Re: But Microdesign’s Glaskowsy says that while the chip will run faster than Intel’s Pentium III, it will not run software as efficiently as the PIII. “Pentium III is within 10% or 20% of the performance of Pentium 4 I have to say that actually seeing this claimed to have been confirmed, instead of just reading suppositions, is something of a surprise. Although there is a huge difference between 10% and 20% (10% is bad but not too terrible, 20% IMHO is). If a 1.13 P3 yields 90% of the performance of a 1.4 GHZ P4, then P4 is clock for clock about 10% slower than P3. The wording in that article was very vague, and I'd guess that any benchmarks shown by Intel would show P4 in its best light. I have long felt that last year's Rambus decision was a disastrous one for Intel, and that the Merced program was poorly conceived, but I expected the Pentium 4 to be a formidable chip. I expected it to scale to higher MHZ than 6th generation chips, just Like Athlon, and to be at least as fast, clock for clock, just like Athlon. Given the present schedules, the 1.4 or 1.5 P4 will be up against 1.2 or 1.3 DDR Tbirds. If 1.4 GHZ P4 is obviously no faster, or even slower, than 1.2 GHZ Tbird, Intel in general will look pretty bad. Winchip, after all, was pretty much laughed out of the market due to just such comparisons, even though it was a decent chip with very low power consumption. I can't believe Intel would let this happen. Either the performance is better than these reports, or Intel will find a way to speed it up, even if the release must be delayed. Intel, IMHO, would be better off delaying P4 to January than training the market discount its performance 10 to 20% compared to Pentium 3 and AMD chips. If every magazine article and review contains the words "of course, don't forget that the Pentium 4 is about 10 to 20% slower than other chips of similar clock speed", it will be tough convincing anyone that the chip is worth spending much money on. It'll just look crappy. Dan