December 1997 / Cover Story

Beyond Pentium II IA-64: What's Different IA-64 Instruction Format How Predication Works How Speculative Loading Works	Here's the first detailed look at the new breakthrough microprocessor architecture from Intel and Hewlett-Packard -- and what it will mean for developers and users. - by Tom R. Halfhill
Beyond MMX x86 in 1998 The Math Behind 3-D Graphics Direct3D Architecture AMD's K6 Road Map Geometry Lessons The Math Behind 3-D Graphics Centaur's WinChip Road Map	AMD, Cyrix, and Centaur are adding new extensions for 3-D graphics to the x86 architecture -- without Intel's blessing. Will they split the Wintel PC standard? - by Tom R. Halfhill

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