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To: Steve Porter who wrote (25793)	4/8/1998 10:52:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Steve, 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). The ideal thing would be to have a CPU that does a lot every cycle AND high clock speed. Merced will apparently have both. I just wonder how it will perform standard x86 instructions. I think it will be a while before the popular applications are rewritten / recompiled for Merced. The momentum will be slowed further by high initial prices of Merced CPUs ($2,000+ as was reported recently). I don't think Intuit will go out of it's way to get a Merced version of of Quicken. Joe

To: Steve Porter who wrote (25793)	4/9/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Steve - Re: "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." Good projection. You can buy the 400 MHz Pentium II TODAY and experience TODAY the power of the the "6x86MX core with a backside L2 running at .5 the core clock a 300Mhz 6x86MX (on 100Mhz bus)". Just think - you can have that performance TODAY and when the Cyrix chip is available in late 1999, you can buy it at that time! Paul