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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (22178)	12/19/1997 4:53:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, With the recent trend of "reporting" at C\|NET, they should just rename it intC\|NET Joe

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (22178)	12/19/1997 4:55:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, You are right about the FPU/MMX performance edge of MediaGXm over M2. :) For GXm-233 vs M2-166Mhz, the benchmark comparison would look like 233:166 or 7:5. However, FPU/MMX is just another Intel scandal to me since none of my daily applications uses them at all. (Maybe, Photoshop is an except. However, photoshop need RAM not FPU to speed up). Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (22178)	12/19/1997 5:02:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, I wonder if when Forrest says that they used the MMX/FPU of the 6x86MX in the GXm he means the entire FPU of the 6x86MX. I think the FPU component of MMX/FPU unit didn't change much from 5x86 -> MediaGX -> 6x86 -> 6x86MX. I guess the biggest change was integration of MMX with FPU in 6x86MX. This MMX/FPU unit in now going to be integraded in MediaGXm. Perfomance of MMX/FPU should be better than 6x86MX, since the clock speeds are higher. The next major revision of MMX/FPU will be in Cayenne core. Joe