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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ali Chen who wrote (39264)	10/14/1998 12:18:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 1573683

Ali: <<Maxwell, you want my analysis? It is short: x86 sucks. In any flavour. Everybody will hit their heads into the "Memory Wall". The battle will be within few percent of performance, IMHO.>> Very profound. But we are stuck with it. First engineering effort is not always the best but then we have to live with it. It is almost like saying why the hell we use silicon instead of GaAs. You may list some manufacturing advantages of silicon over GaAs but had all the engineering effort went into GaAs as we had with silicon we would have perfected the GaAs technology. Maxwell