Some interesting news
This article discussing the kx133 and solano includes a few interesting quotes:
<The KX133 is equally important for the Athlon camp, because it will help maintain a performance edge over Intel. "Putting faster memory onto the already-fast 200-MHz Athlon bus should give systems a performance boost of 5 percent to 10 percent," said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst for market research firm Insight64 (Saratoga, Calif.). "The Athlon is currently running neck and neck with Intel's Coppermine chips, so this chip set is critical for AMD.">
<Intel's stumble on the road to Rambus memories may have handed a market advantage to Via in chip sets and to Advanced Micro Devices in processors that could last the next several months, analysts said.>
These are nice quips, but the whole article isn't so rosy:
<Slater said AMD appears to be hitting its Athlon production targets, shipping about 800,000 in the fourth quarter of 1999.>
This is not very good news, if accurate. It doesn't jibe with the recent talk on this thread and elsewhere.
<Steve Lapinski, director of product marketing at AMD, confirmed that the company is able to meet demand. The company's new fab in Dresden, Germany is "on track for production in the second half of 2000, using copper" interconnects, he said. At a financial analysts meeting in November, AMD demonstrated a copper-based Athlon running at 900 MHz, he said.>
This is definetly news to me. I'm pretty sure the target date for Dresden was 2q, not 2nd half.
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