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To: John Rieman who wrote (36118)	9/23/1998 2:50:00 AM
From: Ron Mayer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 50808

Intel Katmai features for MPEG-2 encoding... Apparently Intel wants to do this in software someday..... techweb.com Katmai New Instructions ... enhancements to the Pentium II processor bus that will be able to handle as many as eight outstanding transaction requests or responses at a time. A new multimedia streaming architecture will further enhance the processor's bandwidth and reduce latency by eliminating the need for caching in streaming operations, opening the door to overlapping fetch, execute and store operations. ... In addition, KNI includes specific instructions aimed at improving continuous-voice recognition and MPEG-2 encoding. ... New instructions for MPEG-2 encoding could collapse 24 tasks into 10, providing a 40 percent improvement in speed, he added. [......] Peter Glaskowsky, a senior analyst with the Microprocessor Report (Sunnyvale, Calif.), expressed similar concerns, noting that Intel's KNI demos last week 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. ... speeds well above 500 MHz and integrated L2 caches of up to 2 Mbytes in some cases. Wow. Anyone out there willing to guess how far off software-encode is?