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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Maxwell who wrote (36987)9/11/1998 11:07:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1570500
 
1) Intel is the ONLY company that is releasing new chip that is SLOWER than the new chip (Pentium 300 vs CeleronA 266). Their engineers are just absolutely BRILLIANT.

Apparently the Intel engineers are much more brilliant than you are. The Pentium 300 MHz is strictly for mobile, while no Celeron will ever be in a notebook computer because of its higher power consumption. Perhaps the mobile Pentium is there to cover any niches that IDT and Rise want to hit.

Or did you think that developing a mobile processor is as simple as soldering an existing one to the motherboard?

2) I expected Katmai to hit in Jan. 1999. But the release date is March. By then AMD would have over 15million 3DNOW chips in the market. This is much better than I had hoped. Also Katmai is not very affordable as you can see. K6-2-300 is now selling for $110.

Hmmm. Katmai is necessary in order to take the thunder away from Sharptooth. Now that the report gave March as a release date for Katmai, perhaps we'll see the reverse effect if AMD can stick to their Q1 target for Sharptooth. Not only that, but it seems that Intel will not be able to advertise Katmai during the Super Bowl. Bummer for Intel.

But do you really think that the $110 price for K6-2 300 MHz is good news for AMD, considering that they're still trying to raise ASP?

4) K7 will be the world fastest X86 CPU in 1999. K7 logic core is significant superior to K6 and K6 already matches PII.

First of all, K6 is still a notch behind Pentium II. Or did you miss the benchmarks back in Tom's Hardware Guide? The K6 is even slower than Pentium II when it comes to Windows NT. Before you denounce WinNT as irrelevant, let me remind you that the K7 is going to be competing against Intel's server and workstation platforms, which certainly aren't going to be running Win98.

Second, we still don't know anything about the K7. The link you provided did not mention the K7. Man, and you got my interest all worked up over nothin' ...

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