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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (25792)	4/8/1998 10:45:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Jim, The beauty of the PR rating is this: While it takes Intel an extra 60+Mhz for a 5% system performance increase, Cyrix can achieve the same with a mere 20Mhz.. The other advantage of doing more in one clock cycle as opposed to many clock cycles is this: You spend fewer cycles (as a %) waiting on memory and more (again as a %) doing actual work. That's the reason why Cyrix chips perform so well, and it may well be a model for the future (witness Intel's Merced, it tries to do TONS in one cycle, as opposed to screaming around at 800Mhz). If you think about it Cyrix's 6x86MX has the MOST efficient CPU core in the HISTORY of computing. My logic and math shows that if the 6x86MX core had a backside L2 running at .5 the core clock (like the PII) a 300Mhz 6x86MX (on 100Mhz bus) would perform on par with at LEAST a 400MHZ PII. My only wish is that Cyrix/NSM bring in the enhanced FPU. I don't care about 3d instructions that much.. just give the MX an arcitecturally equivalent FPU to the PII (that is 2 pipes, and pipelined).. it would be at least 40% faster at the same clock rate. I wish Halla would call me up and ask me how a Computer Nerd would like things done ;-) Steve Cyrix/NSM RUle!

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (25792)	4/9/1998 2:49:00 AM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 33344

Jim, Re: "Intels recent gain is speed bumps seems a much to do with .25u as it does with the Pentium II design. Now that AMD and Cyrix are ramping up .25u the gap will close significantly." You are correct that most of Intel's speed increases have been due to moving to their .25um process ... However Jim, you are wrong that AMD will be closing the "gap" anytime soon. As I have discussed before, not all .25um process are the same in performance. this is why AMD needs their .25um technology just to hit 266mhz and 300mhz K6's. we have yet to see what NSM will offer in terms of a .25um process, but one thing is certain ... it won't be for some time (6 - 9 months). If NSM doesn't start at speeds ABOVE 300mhz, they might as well not bothered to bring up that process. Make It So, Yousef