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To: Epinephrine who wrote (94632)	2/22/2000 5:58:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) of 1575341

Thread, Some more AMD rumours source IXBT labs:AMD plans for 2000 - 15:39 Posted by Alecs According to our very reliable source AMD canceled the release of AMD K6-2+ CPU. So, K6-2 550 is planned to be the fastest Socket7 processor. But AMD also speeds up the release of Athlon ThunderBird and Athlon Spitfire - they will appear in May (not in June as it was planned earlier). At the same time the first Socket-A mainboards will appear. The demand for such a boards will be very high since AMD is going to ship about 25,000K CPUs this year and Socket-A processors will prevail. Some details on ThunderBird and Spitfire: Thunderbird - AMD's first Socket-A processor, almost ready for production. 1.1GHz sample of this CPU was demonstrated at ISSCC, AMD will start sampling in March-April with the volume production start in May. It will initially run at 700-900Mhz (Athlon will have the same speed at this time), will reach 1GHz in June and will completely replace Athlon. 800MHz ThunderBird will become an entry-level model in $1200-1300 PCs class by September. Power - 1.7 V. Spitfire - engineering samples in March, customers samples - in April, production - in May. AMD targets Spitfire to Celeron-level market, so we can expect Celeron-level price. Initial speed - 600-700 MHz with 750 MHz by September. Power - 1.5 V. A few words on chipsets for these processors: Well known VIA KZ-133 with AGP 4X and PC133 SDRAM support. Integrated chipsets from SiS and VIA (KM-133 with KZ-133 compatible pin-out). Next level - AMD-760 and Ali's chipset with 200/266 MHz DDR SDRAM support Highest level - dual-processor chipset AMD-770, multi-processor chipsets from API and Hot Rail, DDR 266 support.

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