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To: Maxwell who wrote (36461)	8/28/1998 11:10:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583656

AMD Q3 Earnings Competition: Since this thread is filled with AMD haters, I want to start a competition. Everyone needs to estimate the following for Q3. 1) AMD Q3 Revenue 2) AMD Q3 EPS 3) # of K6/K6-2 AMD shipped 4) # of K6-2-350MHz AMD shipped 5) AMD CPU ASP Please e-mail me at maxwell_jr@hotmail.com The one that comes closest to the actual number is the winner. Since we are 1 month away from the earnings I will post an update of all the participants every now and then. This competition will give a good insight to what people expect of AMD. Maxwell

To: Maxwell who wrote (36461)	8/30/1998 10:57:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583656

You are full of it. Maxwell, Perhaps we can keep the discussion at a more mature level than this. Double-precision doesn't add anything in this case such as 3D games. It doesn't even add to performance. As a matter of fact it slows it down due to 64bits calculation. Double precision may comes in when alignment are important such as high performance CAD where each coordinate is absolutely needed at very fine resolution (only can be seen by zooming in and out). KNI is not needed for the mass. If you look closely at the image quality of 3D apps on your computer, you will see that real-time 3D rendering for computers is not at a very advanced stage. In fact it is in it's infancy. The next generation of graphics adapters will be able to render near-photographic quality 3D images. This will require very high performance double precision math. Compare the quality of images from the movie "Toy Story" with the quality of images in "Quake", and you will begin to get an understanding of what I am talking about. BTW: The reason that double precision slows down your CPU, is because your CPU hardware is not designed to do double precision in a single pass and requires reiteration by software. RISC CPU's generally do double precision faster than single precision. Scumbria