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To: Elmer who wrote (49037)	2/9/1999 10:18:00 AM
From: Greg S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571986

If you were working on a new product like Katmai and you weren't being pressured at the highend, would you put a lot of resources into speeding up the Deschutes core? Are you saying there's no pressure at the high-end? What about DEC (Compaq) with the 21264 and in the future the 21364, AMD with the K7, and Apple with the G4. I can't pretend to know how to run a company like Intel, and they do things pretty well over there, but it seems to me they've been resting on their laurels (sp) while everyone else has played catch-up. And now everyone has all but caught up. In my opinion, they are making the same mistake IBM did back in the 80s. Brand name only goes so far. They can still turn the tides again, but they need to get their act together and stop dicking around. And I'm betting they don't. -G

To: Elmer who wrote (49037)	2/9/1999 1:31:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571986

Re: "If you were working on a new product like Katmai and you weren't being pressured at the highend, would you put a lot of resources into speeding up the Deschutes core?" Maybe I would have been working on improving my process because the Katmai will use it too? Maybe I would work on speeding up the Deschutes core because the Katmai and Deschutes are so similar the lessons would carry over? Maybe I would work on it so I could pull farther ahead of the competition? Maybe I would work on it so I could further challenge the Unix boxmakers at the high end? Maybe my lack of progress is now showing up when the Katmai debuts at only 500 MHz? Kevin