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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (149377)	11/25/2001 8:10:40 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 186894

Barry, Re: "Intel is aiming to have 25 times more transistors in processors than in current ones, running at 10 times the speed, yet with no increase in power... Intel's flagship Pentium 4 chip has about 42 million transistors. Microprocessors with a billion transistors are expected in the second half of this decade" That's right. Meanwhile, AMD's approach is to shrink their chip smaller so that they can fit more per wafer. While this will reduce costs and raise volumes significantly, it won't help them much if their chips are designed using yesterday's technology. With space for 25 times more transistors at the same power dissipation, Intel can employ many new kinds of designs - designs that run circles around even the fastest of today's designs. If AMD is betting that the CPU market has peaked, and now the objective is to drive down costs, they stand to lose it all if the market continues to demand more. I am confident that there will be new kinds of applications in the future that demand more CPU performance, and Intel will be ready to deliver it. AMD, meanwhile, will be left with nothing but sub-value performance that is cheap to manufacture, but unable to deliver the minimum performance that users demand. wbmw