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[Golfbum]

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we've both been around long enough to remember the 386/weitek fiasco.

imo, there may well be an opportunity for a few niche market products to fill the socket assuming that motherboards appear that support it. i doubt that any mass market software providers (games) will give it a second look.

i think most software developers will focus on threading first to take advantage of multiple cores which are becoming ubiquitous in the volume mainstream from both amd and intel. that's enough to choke most software developers' budgets.

likewise i doubt most motherboard manufacturers will spend a lot of time putting out dual socket motherboards and have to support random silicon providers' *almost* compatible implementations. support nightmare with no payback.

this is most likely to get used by sun or perhaps ibm to do something more vertical.

i think this is mostly a ploy by amd to take the pr focus off the fact that their cpu is lacking the performance and power advantage it used to have.

i expect them to beat the drum loudly on this until they have a cpu that is competitive then it will fade into the obscurity it deserves.

gb