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To: Ali Chen who wrote (38193)	10/5/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572921

Ali, Your list is an eclectic mixture of requirements for HW system designers, SW support, mechanical engineering, with very few items that are directly related to the CPU design itself. 80% of your items are largely independent of the CPU features (including "big L2 caches", hot-swappability, all your "security", etc, etc). Pardon me for going off on a tangent, Ali. You are very correct when you mention that 80% of the requirements for server and workstation support are non CPU-related. But Intel realizes this as well, which is why the Xeon brand name refers not only to the CPU itself, but the system on which the CPU runs. Intel also has a pretty strong support and marketing infrastructure around the server and workstation area, and I'll bet that 80% of it isn't concerned about the CPU design itself. In other words, Intel is (now) in the business of providing complete solutions, rather than just the CPU itself. Of course, all of it is focused back on increasing sales and profits from processors, but it just proves that pushing a server on CPU design alone makes no sense. On the other hand, AMD's plans with the upcoming K7 processor can be described with one huge question mark. We don't even know what the core architecture of the K7 will look like, and that's only 20% of the problem as you state. What about the other 80%? Tenchusatsu