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To: John F. Dowd who wrote (108185)	8/23/2000 8:59:34 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Don't you think INTC is working with software guys for some time on these issues I've posted before that I would be surprised if, clock for clock, P4 is much more than 10% slower than P3 on most code. It just doesn't seem possible that a new, much more expensive to build (217 mm2) chip could be. But Scumbria designs chips, and knows 100 times as much as I do about such things. If he expects 20 to 25%, that's probably what it will be. So, at this point, I "expect" to be surprised. It does seem incredible, though. To get back to your question, my take is that Intel has been pretty busy trying to rally the troops around Itanic's new software requirements. You can only go the well so many times, and Microsoft, etc. can only target so many architectures at once. In any event, the chips have to yield decent performance on what's already out there, anyways. AMD's strategy of minimizing the effort needed to support Sledgehammer and Clawhammer is looking smarter and smarter. Dan