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To: Gary Ng who wrote (45771)	1/16/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Gary, You know Intel has a roadmap and tries to stick to it...this opens them up to someone trying to head them off at the pass. Up 'till now no one has been able to it for very long. I'd say thats still the case...but AMD will try. Jim

To: Gary Ng who wrote (45771)	1/16/1998 12:23:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Respond to of 186894

I think AMD's 3D extensions may well be very worthwhile. From what I understand, they are essentially similar to the MMX extensions, except that they are single precision, and therefore faster, than Intel's MMX extensions, which are double precision. Apparently what AMD determined was that for 3D games and screen graphics, precision doesn't matter, but speed does. That said, based on the conference call contents, I am not sure that AMD will survive long enough for another generation of chips to see the light of volume production. Plus, Intel may get so far ahead of them that Intel's double precision may become faster than AMD's single precision.