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To: Maxwell who wrote (37393)	9/24/1998 12:03:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) of 1572447

Re: "It will shine when AMD demonstrates the K7 behind closed doors at Comdex to the investors. " The K7 will play second fiddle to Intel's processors during it's entire lifetime. It's performance does not live up to your hype. The K7 will have to play in the workstation/Server market. That means alien blaster games don't count for anything, they wouldn't anyway because the Katmai will blow away AMD's 3DNow instruction set. AMD will have to present SPECmarks to be taken seriously. Intel has already demonstrated Katmai running at 804Mhz. Performance was in the neighborhood of 30 Specint95. The K7 can't rely on Win98 and 16bit code to post phoney benchmarks, server vendors won't be as impressed as you are. This is the big leagues. The K7 will have to demonstrate TpmC numbers to even hope to be taken seriously. Unsubstantiated claims by hypersters won't boost those numbers. You have spent a lot of time flapping your gums Maxwell. You have no idea what Intel has waiting in the wings. Intel has no need whatsoever to show their hand. AMD on the otherhand, has a very real need to hype their vapor. EP

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