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To: Scumbria who wrote (42287)	11/27/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572549

Scumbria - Re: "Cyrix is selling lots of CPUs, but only represents a small percentage of NSM's business and overhead." The new Portland Fab - already in a mess because the original 0.25 micron process is uncompetitive - represents a HUGE OVERHEAD BURDEN for NSM - most of it due to the Cyrix CPU line. NSM sure isn't cranking out LINEAR devices on a 0.18/0.25 micron CMOS fab. Further, NSM/Cyrix has design teams churning out unsaleable MXi's and HallaPeno Cores and Cayenne this and Cayenne That and PCOAC designs which won't generate a saleable product for 8 to 12 more months. You call all these design teams "negligible overhead" ? With overhead in Colorado, Texas and Israel? That's money being BURNED on a daily basis, Scumbria ! Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (42287)	11/27/1998 9:11:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572549

Scumbria & Intel Investors - Anand's Benchmarks of K6-2 400 MHz Anand has posted his report on WInstone 99 benchmarks fo the 400 MHz K6-2 and various other Intel & AMD chips at different speeds. The 400 MHz K6-2 is only about 4% faster than the 350 MHz K6-2 WHEN THE NEW BIOS with Write Allocate and Write Merge Buffer are implemented. Surprisingly , WITHOUT the new BIOS and Write Allocate and Write Merge Buffers implemented, the 400 MHz K6-2 is ACTUALLY SLOWER THAN THE 350 MHz K6-2 ! For comparison, the 400 MHz K6-2 is only 8% faster than a 300 MHz Celeron A ! The 400 MHz K6-2 is 10% slower than a 400 MHz Pentium II and 15% slower than a 400 MHz Pentium II XEON. Note: All Jerry's Kids Insert Here " 10% Slower but 24% CHEAPER makes ($259 K6-2 400 vs. $323 PII 400 on Pricewatch) the 400 MHz K6-2 the Price Performance LEADER !" Paul