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To: AK2004 who wrote (52441)	8/24/2001 10:39:46 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: What are you running that requires mp? Heck, the way interpreted code in browsers eats cycles, all you need to be doing is to have two windows open, with one a browser, and be working in both to get some benefits from MP. WinPrinters that render on the PC instead of the printer can just about halt a single processor machine while they build pages - ever try to go right back to working on a big document after sending a draft to the printer and have the machine be unresponsive until the pages start printing? Certainly, you can live without MP, but if the incremental cost is trivial, and it removes some of those annoying, rhythm wrecking pauses that interfere with what you're doing on the PC, why not go for it?

To: AK2004 who wrote (52441)	8/24/2001 11:44:08 PM
From: burn2learn	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Albert, In reality I'm not sure if I need it, but at the same time it makes me feel like my single cpu machine is like drinking water and MP is pure nectar! If this grew as a niche I think it would drive the upgrade market and become a new standard. Perception of increased performance is as important as real performance....my grass is greener..blah, blah, blah. If CPU's are only ~10-$20 to make why don't we have dual core systems. It would save packaging cost I assume (over packaging two). What stops this from happening? Some of the techniques discussed to get better poly gates have been resist etch and phase shift mask. If these helped with .18 why can they not be employed on .13? Is it the fact that AMD already used these techniques on current litho process and Intel waited till .13 to deploy? There is only so much you can strain out of 248 nm litho tools? Elmer brought up a good point I think. There is a trade off between yield and gate length. Does anyone have an idea where the cliff is...and how close each company is to that cliff? Is there fact to backup that AMD has crappy yields compared to Intel for a given speed bin? burn2learn I've been also thinking about the P4. At what point as Intel continues to increase GHZ do we with our 500-1000mhz computers get that itch that a upgrade is required. I think at 2.5 or so I would start to get edgy. Intel may spur the upgrade cycle?