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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (38954)10/9/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Petz  Read Replies (3) of 1572942
 
Paul, <initially, AMD will pooh-pooh the KNI, just like... Slot 1>

Actually, AMD never adopted Slot 1 and they will never adopt KNI, they will leap over it.

KNI, despite having zillions more instructions does not improve double precision floating point one iota.

3DNow implementation in K7 will be a superset which extends 3DNow SIMD performance to double precision. Tune in next Tuesday.

AMD Slot A is a leap over the Slot 1 in performance. Timing skew means Slot 1 100 MHz bus can only be extended to about 133 MHz and I doubt Slot 1 can support RAMBUS technology. Slot A will start at 200 MHz, and support cheap dual-data rate SDRAM, as well as direct RAMBUS.

Petz
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