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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Paul Engel who wrote (36692)9/3/1998 12:30:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1571405
 
Engel,
To: Maxwell (36687 )
From: Paul Engel
Thursday, Sep 3 1998 12:16AM ET
Reply # of 36694

Maxwell - Re: " Intel better release their 500MHz by February or else
AMD will be at par with Intel and drive Intel out of business by selling
the 450MHz for $200. "

You are neglecting a VERY IMPORTANT TECHNICAL DETAIL !

Without the K6-3, AMD's K6 and K6-2 will not get commensurate
system speed improvements as their internal CPU clock speed increases -
BECAUSE THE EXTERNAL L2 CACHE IS DEADLOCKED at a
FIXED 100 MHz !"

A very good point! One we have already discussed. But remember that MHz sells...the first thing Joe consumer looks at when buying a computer is MHz...In the past Intel has jacked up MHz without much of an increase in speed and sold this for a premium. AMD will do the same thing.

Jim
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