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To: Petz who wrote (37077)	9/16/1998 2:28:00 PM
From: StockMan	Respond to of 1571061

Dude, The K6-2-350/100 is SLOWER than the Celeron 333 and costs more. Why go any further. Even Intel's low-end chips kick AMD's top of the line chips b*tt

To: Petz who wrote (37077)	9/16/1998 3:35:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571061

Petz - Re: "Introduction of 8 new 128 bit = 4 x 32 bit wide single precision packed CPU registers, enabling the computation of 4 single precision FP variables at the same time." Don't you think there is a mode for executing 2 Double Precision operations (2 x 64) at the same time? Maybe Tom didn't get it right, just as you noted he "boo-booed" on " Tom is in error when he states that AMD's implementation is only capable of 2 single precision floating point ops per clock cycle" You only believe this character when his output fits your desired input. Paul

To: Petz who wrote (37077)	9/16/1998 7:51:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571061

The Katmai New Instructions (KNI) consist of 70 instructions and eight new 128-bit registers Intel has added to its X86 architecture. The registers open the way to executing four, 32-bit single-precision SIMD floating-point operations simultaneously with Intel's existing MMX integer instructions extensions. ... Indeed, at least one senior PC engineer said he feared Intel will not deliver enough compelling applications for the Katmai systems that he will ship next spring at prices around $2,500. "The high-end market is shrinking and users need new apps to see the benefits," he said. Peter Glaskowsky, a senior analyst with the Microprocessor Report (Sunnyvale, Calif.), expressed similar concerns, noting that Intel's KNI demos at the Developer Forum were unimpressive and failed to show MPEG-2 capabilities. "The digital video stuff will be there, but whether the 3-D stuff will be ready is unclear to me," he added. Graphics-market researcher Jon Peddie of Jon Peddie Associates (Tiburon, Calif.) said Intel has spent tens of millions of dollars assisting software developers who plan to write applications that make use of KNI. Nevertheless, he said "in the home market it will be all Intel can do to hold even next year." "There's a segment of the market that does buy up, but it's more difficult to keep them doing that each year," echoed Reynolds of Dataquest, noting that the United States is increasingly becoming a saturated market for PCs. "We are seeing the average selling prices of PCs drop dramatically. The story isn't in the growth of the sub-$1,000 PC, but it's in the fact that the high-end systems' prices have collapsed to about $2,000," he added. eet.com