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To: Steve Porter who wrote (59344)	7/5/1998 9:02:00 PM
From: Dale J.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Steve, Dale,First of all it's the MXi.. Well that explains why I didn't find any information. ;^) Second of all:...So you can stop worrying (and over exaggerating what was said). You ask about the MXi and got the information that is available. Steve, here is what was said from the Cyrix thread: This should be a very scarey proposition for Intel folks as the MXi is designed to sell at around $120 and contains all the features of the MediaGX and more. Add to the improved floating point unit the addition of 3D-Now instructions and you will have one hell of a Quake machine for $500. That is really starting to eat Intel's bread and butter. ... If they get the clockspeed upto 600Mhz then there is real trouble. Intel will still own the server market, but Cyrix will own the low-end. ... This chip has to have Intel very, very paranoid. ... A 400Mhz MXi should run as if it were a PII-450-500Mhz ... When the MXi then PCOAC comes and NSM can Fab them...it's gonna be a nightmare for Intel. I'm not worried just concerned. Since I am a non-engineer myself, I rely on a consensus. I know Yousef tends to be from the other school of thought so I wanted to get his thoughts on the chip. (Sorry if I offended you, I meant it as light-hearted humor). Craig Barrett said his biggest complaint about the FTC is that they get all their information from Intel's competitors. They never get a balanced picture. If you are curious about the MXi and want to see more about it go to www.cyrix.com. Somewhere in the developers section there is a .pdf file on the "cayenne" (as in pepper) core. Thanks, I will check it out, and also rerun my search, this time with MXi. ;^) Dale