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To: Scumbria who wrote (123383)	8/31/2000 2:09:11 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570636

Scumbria, I don't know an ALU from a IPC. I have more of a marketing type mind, and I'm trying to figure out where Intel anticipates the PC platform to go in the next five years. As inept as you think the Intel engineers are (and I'm tending towards agreeing with you), they must have had a plan for increasing performance in some applications and sacrificing others. If, as you say, the clock speed was sacrificed, then maybe Intel feels that future applications won't need a lot more clock speed. I think this is an important issue, because folks that write applications don't do it in a void, they build applications that run best on the available hardware. If Intel is taking a left hand turn and going a different direction than AMD, it will be very significant to how the industry plays out in the next few years. So I think whats important here is to figure out what plays well on the P4, and what plays better on the Athlon. Then you have to decide if the approach that Intel is taking is better than the approach that AMD is taking, based on what we individually expect to be the most popular PC functions coming down the road (speech recognition, for instance). That assumes that you believe Intel and AMD have started to take a radically different path, and I don't want to put words in your mouth. John