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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (30326)3/27/1998 11:11:00 PM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (2) of 1572752
 
This month of Microprocessor Forum:

I happened to pick up the latest issue of Microprocessor Forum and this is what in it.

1) They said Celeron 266MHz is slower than a Pentium 233-MMX. However the floating point is faster than Pentium 233-MMX.

2) PII for mobile of 266MHz running at 1.6V dissipates about 7-8Watts.

3) K6-3D floating point is faster than Pentiumm MMX and a bit slower than PII.

4) IBM to manufacture AMD K6. IBM is to use chips produced for the themselves and the rest are selling back to AMD. IBM can't market and sell AMD chips independently like the Cyrix deal.

5) PII 450MHz built on 0.35um process has die size 220mm^2 and dissipates 45Watts and the 512K cache dissipates about 1-2 Watts.

Comments:

I find 2) to be most interesting. 7-8Watts is about the maximum envelop of power dissipation a notebook can take. Thus Intel will have a hard time putting a PII beyond 266MHz into notebook. K6 of 300MHz should have no problem of being in notebook since power dissipation of 0.25um K6 is lower than 0.25um PII. My friends notebook is a lucrative market with high profit margin. AMD will do well with their small die size K6 or the "Little K6".

Item 3) is good for those who needs higher floating point. You will no longer ca complain about THE FLOATING POINT OF a K6-3D-300MHz selling for $200.

Item 4) will be a disaster for Intel. Barrett will go down in history of fooling the public of a "flopship" Covington.

Maxwell
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