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To: Amy J who wrote (113597)	10/15/2000 12:59:43 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 186894

Re: Do you mean like AMD's recent Server demo? Intel's demos have been a lot better. :-) But seriously, P4 has been a "3 weeks away" product for about 3 months now, there are some serious questions about its performance, and I think we're all good and ready to see some systems and benchmarks. The leaked numbers for P4 are pretty awful, but leaked numbers from pre-production hardware and beta software often are, so that may not mean anything. If P4 really is 20% slower, clock for clock, than P3/Athlon, then AMD can focus on servers. If P4 is as fast as Athlon, clock for clock, then AMD will have to focus its efforts on keeping their desktop parts competitive. Another consideration is that if the production P4s are significantly different than the engineering samples being qualified and regression tested by the OEMs (20% faster), there is a pretty good chance that bugs will turn up in the production systems that didn't show up in the slower engineering samples. Regards, Dan