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To: Paul Engel who wrote (27398)	6/14/1998 6:56:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Trivia Question: How much have CPU prices fallen during the past 13 months? Cyrix 6x86MX/PR233: was $320, now $51 = -84% AMD K6/233: was $415, now $68 = -84% Intel MMX/233: was $555, now $97 = -83% Intel PII/266: was $725, now $190 = -74% Intel PII/300: was $1,930, now $237 = -88% Craig May, 1997 prices are from cpu-central.com Current prices are from pricewatch.com

To: Paul Engel who wrote (27398)	6/14/1998 12:49:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 33344

RE:"It is a split transaction processor bus AND it separates the L2 cache bus from the system bus" Paul, On the personal side: You are sounding a lttle frustrated. Perhaps it is the lost INTC net worth due to MediaGX. You may want to find a way to deal with this because it is probably going to get much worse over the next 12 months. On the technical side: Since Intel, AMD and IDT are all moving to integrated L2 architectures, a separate L2 bus seems like a pointless and expensive "feature." How many pins are wasted on the L2 bus? I'm surprised you would brag about this. Why would I want to have a split transaction bus in a single processor system? One of the many, many defects of the x86 architecture is a lack of registers. Operands are kept in memory and the CPU core stalls immediately upon a load miss. Having a second non-stalled instruction does little for performance. In addition, the presence of an onboard L2 makes the memory bus behavior mostly irrelevant (again, in a single processor system.) Repeating the point I tried to make earlier, there is no empirical evidence that slot 1 processors are as fast as socket 7 processors. BTW: At one point I thought Merced was going to be a threat to Intel's competitors during this millenium. Is Merced turning into a huge boondoggle, or am I imagining things? RE:"Perhaps that isn't apparent to you, but then again, you are welded into your Cyrix investment and need to constantly blame somebody other than Cyrix for Cyrix's miserable performance." Actually I recently abandoned my long held investment in Cyrix. Until they start shipping a processor with top notch floating point, integrated L2, and competitive megahertz I don't see the stock moving. However, I do see the MediaGX as a great facilitator for my INTC puts. Scumbria