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To: Petz who wrote (123445)	9/1/2000 3:43:42 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580019

ted, the #1 design goal of the P4 was high clock speed. This has nothing to do with the Internet, streaming video, audio or anything else. Personally, I think these applications are served better by dedicated hardware which is much cheaper and has lower power consumption, or, if you insist on a computer doing it, by greater parallellism. Petz, I know that the net discussions are Intel hype but there is some truth to the hype...and some of these applications right now are in their infancy and do not require a lot of power as you state. However, as they mature I think their power demands will increase significantly. That's why I thought this may be a fit for Willy. ted