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To: Scumbria who wrote (41576)	11/16/1998 6:25:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572474

Scrumbria: <<Having multiple execution units is like driving a Porsche during rush hour. You get home at about the same time you would in a VW bus, because the maximum speed is mostly irrelevant for normal usage.>> Very true. Guess what happen when the industry decides to open a 12 lane freeway? AMD K7 will be available and take you home faster than Intel. Maxwell

To: Scumbria who wrote (41576)	11/16/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572474

Scumbria, >Re: Having multiple execution units is like driving a Porsche during >rush hour. You get home at about the same time you would in a VW >bus, because the maximum speed is mostly irrelevant for normal usage. Paying extra for an Intel 400/450 is also useless however the market wants high performance CPU's. When AMD starts shipping 500Mhz plus K7's CPU's that offer better benchmarks than PII's they will sell everyone they can make. You can argue (correctly) till you are blue in the face that these higher clock speeds don't affect real world performance for most apps. But consumers want high clock speed CPU's and they want high benchmarks. Analogy may well be horsepower and top speeds etc. How many of us buy the cheapest/most fuel efficent automobiles even thogh they may be just as effective in getting us from A to B. The key is that AMD has a very competitive K7 design and has a brand new empty Fab and they have a fairly small die size even in 0.25 micron (same as celery's). Customers should lap these parts up and the announcement of 2 chip set suppliers is also great news today. With K7's rolling off the assembly lines in Q1 99 you can be sure that AMD's 99 product plans look pretty solid. Regards, Kash

To: Scumbria who wrote (41576)	11/16/1998 9:00:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572474

Scumbria, <the fundamental problem of data starvation.> and <WV vs. Porsche. You get home at about the same time you would in a VW bus> About the same time, that's true. But still faster: if there is a gap in the traffic lane, the Porsche has better chance to fill the gap and outpace the WV-bus. This is not about engineering, this is about "sport" - who is first. Remember Elmer bragging about 3% gain when switching from LX to BX chipset? Same dummy Joe mentality.