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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (118935)	11/22/2000 3:38:47 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Data Warehousing and Database mining constitute 90% of commercial usage of servers The issues on those machines are related to i/o bus bandwidth, not memory bandwidth. And (as has been pointed out here before) in those applications the CPU just acts as a traffic cop for DMA operations by smart peripherals. Where the CPU can be significant in such machines is in indexing (database server) and Java or ASP execution (server applets) - and I believe that those aren't strong points for P4 due to the many branches taken by those operations. The fact that P4 may be the first chip ever to trail Athlon into the MPU market doesn't help either. (Calm down there Elmer, I said may be - and I pointed out that to be trailing Athlon MPU to market is pretty sad, at this point). The bottom line here is that Coppermine, expected to be little more than a shrink of P3, was an upside surprise that kept P3 competitive with Athlon. P4, expected to be a killer chip, was instead a downside surprise - to me, at least) Regards, Dan