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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39187)10/13/1998 4:26:00 PM
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Tenchusatsu,

The K7 bus is a 100MHz Double Data Rate Bus which offers 200MHz performance. And the backside L2 cache will be either 512K or 1M. As far as positioning goes, here's how I believe they'll position themselves:

K6-2/300/333/350/366/380 vs. CeleronA-300/333/366
K6-2/400 vs. Pentium II-450
K6-3/450/500 vs. Katmai
K7-500/550 vs. Willamette

The big "Roadmap" that Intel released that supposedly showed around 10 processors is a bit deceiving. Reality is that Celeron, CeleronA, Pentium II, and Xeon are all built using the same P6 core. The only major differences are the amount of cache and the ability to do multiprocessing. P6 core ends at 450MHz. The Katmai, Tanner, Coppermine, Cascades and Willamette are all based on the Katmai core. The only differences here are again cache size, process technology, and bus speeds. Where Intel starts to differentiate itself is with the Merced and McKinley which frankly are not due out until the mid to end of 2000.

AMD's roadmap matches up very nicely against Intel's, with AMD taking a slight performance lead with the Sharptooth processor in Q199 and a major performance lead with the K7 processor in Q299. As far as the KNI instruction argument goes, KNI is not supported in Microsoft's DirectX 6.0 and does not provide any real performance advantages over AMD's 3D-NOW technology. So I think that AMD's marketshare momentum will carry over into 1999 and will carry from the retail market to the commercial business market/notebook market and then into the server/workstation market with the release of the K7 processor.

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