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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (80386)	5/21/2002 11:36:44 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Constantine, Re: "I think AMD's approach is better since ALL programs will run faster on Hammer since no recoding or recompiling will be needed in 32-bit mode. The Intel extensions including hyperthreading need extensive programmer investments to accomplish similar speed increases." What you're not seeing is that Intel's involvement in transitioning consumer apps to support Hyperthreading is that they are paving the way for future AMD endeavors, including multi-core CPUs, and multithreading of their own. In a sense, Intel is preparing the industry for yet another paradigm shift, this time towards multithreaded apps, but it will eventually benefit the entire industry, as that's where things will be going in short order. AMD is also moving towards full SSE compatibility (that is, until Intel releases SSE-3, or whatever it will be called). Therefore, one could also argue that Intel has been preparing the industry for SIMD compliance, which is a direction that the industry was going towards, anyway. It just so happens that it was a SIMD instruction set that Intel invented. If that bothers you, then so be it. wbmw