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To: Dan3 who wrote (161730)	3/10/2002 1:51:12 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Dan, Re: "Intel's design teams always start from "if the compiler will produce perfect code, how do we design the chip." While AMD's design teams start from "what's the best design to run the code produced by real world compilers." The result: AMD's chip is better on 95% of software, while Intel's chip is better on the 5% (or less) of the code out there that has been tweaked to be "perfect" for that particular chip." Or, here's another way to paint that picture. Intel's design teams always start from, "Let's design the best kind of CPU, and if software is behind, we will work with compilers to produce the best running code." While AMD's design teams start from, "What's the point of designing around better code? It's not like we can do anything about it. We might as well just improve the basic core that we already have, and besides - it's easier." The result: Intel gets vast improvements on newer software that follows more modern code, and though AMD starts off with an advantage, that advantage slowly melts away as software transitions to the higher performance model that Intel is pushing towards. wbmw