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To: Joe NYC who wrote (83100)	6/20/2002 7:09:41 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jozef, Re: "Another problem is that AMD royally screwed up by designing Thoroughbred with 256k L2 rather than 512K, which means it is not a very desirable product ..." Ahhh ... Another 'Droid with "feathers" caught in his "teeth". <ggg> Make It So, Yousef

To: Joe NYC who wrote (83100)	6/20/2002 7:11:02 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Another problem is that AMD royally screwed up by designing Thoroughbred with 256k L2 rather than 512K, which means it is not a very desirable product When do you think AMD will start selling Bartons? Tim

To: Joe NYC who wrote (83100)	6/20/2002 7:57:06 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: Another problem is that AMD royally screwed up by designing Thoroughbred with 256k L2 rather than 512K You've got it backwards. AMD should have completely dropped the L2, leaving the 128K L1. That would have given it about the IPC of Northwood, and let the chip clock higher. Intel is doing well selling 1.8ghz P4s on an sdram platform against DDR Athlon 1900+ models. The last thing AMD needs to do is improve IPC - which always lowers clock speed. In fact, there is probably nothing that would be better than for AMD to release a high clocking, crappy performing chip, (along side the high performing Thoroughbreds) and then watch Intel talk itself blue it the face explaining why real world application performance is more important than nominal mhz.