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To: Petz who wrote (25785)	11/10/1997 6:14:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1579241

Petz, That sounds logical, Thanks EOM.

To: Petz who wrote (25785)	11/10/1997 7:53:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1579241

John, re:<at 500 MHZ will the socket 7 keep up?> More or less I agree with you. The actual performance depends on some distribution between memory-bounded pieces of code, and CPU-bounded pieces of code. On average, the socket7 memory bus is far from saturation. This balance is also affected by code/data locality and how it fits the system cache mapping and design. To design the so-called "balanced system" you need some assumptions about this distribution. Or you need to target a certain range of application, as AMD did. Unfortunately, this distribution is a moving target since software designers are using newer and newer tools, application requirements become bigger and larger, or just totally different, use different memory structures, new subset of instructions appears, new accelerated hardware appears, etc. etc. The winner will be the one who can better forecast these trends in workload (within constraints of economics and manufacturing). Or ajust their design faster. So far Cyrix seems to be the best in the business application area - they have decided to go with an unified L1 cache, which gives more flexibility on mixed code- and data-intensive workload (IMHO). Intel, in turn, believes that they can just command/define all these trends... Everything is not so simple these days... Regards, Ali