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To: Elmer who wrote (42813)	12/5/1998 1:15:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572955

Elmer: <<Intel won't say yet how fast the Katmai chips due late next year will run, but in a demonstration here, engineers cranked a Katmai chip up to 804 MHz -- at which point the online banking application it was running crashed.>> Scary thought. Maybe Intel needs to fix the Katmai. I wouldn't want a system that keeps on crashing. Maxwell

To: Elmer who wrote (42813)	12/5/1998 9:45:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572955

Elmer, Intel has already demo'd the Katmai at over 800mhz. Intel's competitors should be concerned about this. There is a possibility that in 0.18u, Intel will be able to ramp up the speed curve faster than they have publicly indicated. 800 MHz is only 33% faster than 600 MHz. We have been seeing 33% increases in clock speed pretty quickly these days. After all, how long did it take K6 to increase 33% from 300 to 400 MHz? As far as Winstone performance goes, further increases in clock speed will do little. Until DRAM latencies are improved, there is little that a CPU can do to improve performance. Scumbria