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To: jcholewa who wrote (20179)	11/25/2000 2:49:19 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

JC, 6x86 was an IPC champ. The problem is that the whole transition to .25u was a mess. They got the semi .25u process from IBM and semi .25u process form NSM. Add to it the limited scalability of 6x86 core, and you have a recipe for disaster. K6 or Pii never came close to 6x86 in IPC, but 6x86 just didn't scale to highe enough clock speed. That's when NSM started playing games with the PR rating, rating parts well above their true ratings. Another variable was off-chip L2, limited to 100 MHz. Higher the clock speed went, the bigger disadvantage K6 and 6x86 faced. Joe