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To: Tony Viola who wrote (74459)	2/25/1999 11:58:00 AM
From: Joseph Pareti	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

not good enough on the drawing board, worse in fab = AMD = Losers AMD's K6-3 is now the fastest PC-processor for in business applications under Windows98, but as soon as Intel releases the Pentium III 550 the crown will go back to Intel. I have to say that I am a bit disappointed by the K6-3, since it only really shines when running integer operations. Applications with floating point calculations as e.g. 3D-games, voice recognition, 3D-rendering and video compression do only run fast enough if optimized for 3DNow!, Unfortunately AMD wasn't able to do a great job in convincing software developers to do decent optimizations for 3Dnow!, so that the majority of software does still not take advantage of AMD's floating point SIMD instructions, although this instruction set is available for almost 9 months now. www4.tomshardware.com