An article from PC Week:
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will announce this week at
PC Expo in New York the immediate availability of a
chip that AMD claims will outperform Intel Corp.'s
100MHz Pentium at a much lower price.
AMD's new K5-PR100 will sell for $84 each in
quantities of 1,000, according to AMD officials in
Austin, Texas.
By contrast, Intel's 100MHz Pentium costs $134 each in
quantities of 1,000.
At the show, AMD will also demonstrate the K5-PR120
and K5-PR133 chips, which will rival 120MHz and
133MHz Pentiums, respectively, the AMD officials said.
Both the K5-PR120 and K5-PR133 are due in volume
late in the third quarter, they said.
AMD will also announce at the show its new K5-PR
chip, which boasts performance comparable to a 166MHz
Pentium.
Although the company won't demonstrate the chip, it will
be released in the fourth quarter, officials said.
AMD recently changed the name of its processors to PR,
for "performance rating," to quell criticisms that the
chips' former name, 5K86, was too confusing.
In addition to the demonstrations, AMD will discuss at
the show its plans to begin shipping samples of the K6
chip in the fourth quarter.
An AMD spokesman said the next-generation CPU
should out-perform the 200MHz Pentium. The chip will
incorporate Intel's MMX multimedia instruction set due
later this year.
That processor will be competitive in performance with
Intel's Pentium Pro, according to the spokesman. |
