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To: Joe NYC who wrote (151362)	12/6/2001 4:18:31 PM
From: GVTucker	Respond to of 186894

...and now Intel ups their quarterly revenue estimate. Now looking 6.7b to 6.9b.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (151362)	12/6/2001 4:27:04 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Joe, Re: "As far as the speed of Athlon L1 and L2 caches, my WAG is that L1 may be full speed and L2 may be half speed. I don't know." I sense a general disinterest in the subject from you. I wonder what makes the Athlon caches so uninteresting, but the Pentium 4 caches so very interesting? My guess is that justifying the mystery of lower IPC in the Pentium 4 tends to get people more interested in becoming armchair experts on the subject, while the Athlon is just assumed to be a better micro-architecture (by some). I wonder, though, why the same assumptions can't be applied to both Intel and AMD. If Intel can't get their caches above 1GHz at .18u (and I do remember that the publication that suggested this was over two years old), then what makes people think that AMD can get their caches to operate at 1.6GHz? I think it's obvious that modern microprocessors operate most efficiently with multiple clock domains, and I'm sure that the Athlon qualifies just as much as the Pentium 4. That's why I don't take the argument seriously that Intel is to blame for overinflating the Pentium 4 megahertz. I don't believe there is an acceptable way to define which clock domain appears on the front of a PC price tag, but I am willing to let the experts determine that. Apparently, the clock domain that continues to run the majority of the processor is still the nominal speed. Until that changes, I don't see why it's necessary to put up a fuss over what portion of the remaining percentage runs at a faster or slower speed. wbmw