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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (145145)	10/12/2001 10:52:11 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re: the XP has made up a lot of ground... It's a leapfrog game. Athlon XP (is that what they call it?) might have brought the performance crown back to AMD, but I haven't looked at any benchmarks. Northwood will bring it back to Intel, I'd bet. CPU execution speed is just one parameter for OEMs and end users to consider, and is not even a major factor. Infrastructure support, company viability, ability for manufacturing to deliver JIT, of engineering to deliver new products on schedule, and chip reliability are just a few things that come to mind right away that are all more important to the OEMs than chip speed. That is, of course, unless chip speed is out by more than a few percent from the competition. The AMD crowd makes far, far too much out of performance. Tony