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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (24066)	2/24/1998 9:01:00 PM
From: Investor A	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Pravin, I hardly could agree anything with you on Intel technology, :) FYI, ALI already started the delivery of 100Mhz Alladin V ahead of Intel BX. Except the 100Mhz bus speed from the better processing, there is nothing real new from LX to BX. It does not implement 128-bit data bus. It does not implement 66Mhz PCI. It does not support 4X AGP. Have you asked why it takes Intel so long to come up with BX chipset? Watch out! Fuchi K Who loves Cyrix's innovations Don't buy Intel processors! In stead, buy the processors from its competitors to keep Intel from long-term monopolizing x86 processor market while maintaining health competition and the PC innovations. techstocks.com

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (24066)	2/25/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:"I'm sure they will be tweeking the integer performance at least a little." Pravin, The lesson of the 90's for CPU architects, was that it is much easier to gain performance through increased megahertz than through architectural enhancements. The integer performance of Cayenne will be improved because the clock speed will be higher, regardless of any tweaks. RE:"Cyrix were going to beat Intel to a 100 Mhz bus by several months. It looks like the opposite will be true." The Media GX processors use an internal memory/IO bus which runs at the CPU speed, (currently 200MHz.) Cyrix has already won this battle. Look for future integrated processors to take the bus speed to 300 MHz and above.