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To: Maverick who wrote (7362)	9/1/2000 10:49:19 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Hi all; Scumbria, Ali: Thought you might find this of interest from the previous post: Hammering Away at Intel's iTanium There are many reasons Intel is having trouble with iTanium performance, but the fundamental one is a design flaw. The iTanium "EPIC" approach to processor design is a greedy pig for memory bandwidth. What goes on inside the processor hasn't been a major limiting factor in PC performance for years; processors are way faster than the rest of the system they plug in to. With on-chip cache and clock multiplying, modern processors now run at about five times the rate of the motherboard they connect to. The real limiting factor is how fast the memory chips on that motherboard can feed instructions into (and accept results from) the processor's on-chip cache. (This is explained in detail in the articles I just linked to.) fool.com Somewhat ironic that it is an article at fool.com... -- Carl

To: Maverick who wrote (7362)	9/2/2000 10:58:01 AM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

Maverick: Thanks for the post...It's becoming more and more obvious in the "public domain" that INTC can't produce in retail quantities any meaningful competitor to AMD's products based upon the superior architecture of the Athy... This AM, in looking for the launch of the 750 Duron on the HSN(?) which for some reason I don't get, I did come across a paid for TV Everex campaign in which they feature an "all-in" 800 MHz Athlon system for $1499 after mail in rebates..."All-in" is comprehensive and includes 17" monitor, scanner, colour printer, camera, loads of software, DVD, etc...Everex ships 500,000 computers per month, many of which will be these 800 MHz systems by the looks of this offer...900's 1 gig and 1.1 gigs are also offered with the basic package... Looks like AMD is very serious about raising the entry bar for high performance to 800 MHz and above...