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To: smooth2o who wrote (191931)	4/4/2006 1:37:39 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"From all I read, there's no reason to believe that K8L will have any more FP performance than Conroe." Nor any reason to believe it will have less. So, for floating point, it will come down to clock rate for stuff running out of cache and for random access, latency to memory. Since it looks as if K8L will be better on both...

To: smooth2o who wrote (191931)	4/4/2006 1:42:13 PM
From: j3pflynn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

smooth - That's just silly. Charlie has been very open about Conroe and Woodcrest being solid CPUs, and about the fact that AMD has to execute to keep up. On the other hand, in the past week or so, he seems to have gone very sour on Intel's future, perhaps he's seen something that isn't public knowledge yet? I don't get any sense at all of Charlie resenting "Conroe stepping on AMD's toes", as you put it.