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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Yousef who wrote (41964)11/20/1998 7:58:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Read Replies (2) of 1572963
 
Another article about AMD at COMDEX with a little more info about K6-3 and K7. I got the link from chiptech.com and the link to the site is 3dnews.net

Here are a few interesting parts:
"From what we understand the main thing holding back the Sharptooth from retail shelves
has nothing to do with production process or any of the usual AMD excuses, but is rather
a strategic move to let the K6-2 mature before bringing out their next product (Something
that I'm sure Dell and company will appreciate). To the rest of us, it just means we have to
wait for a technology that should already be available."

"Most importantly though, AMD showed it's first K7. The K7 we saw was running at
500MHz, and had a 200MHz system bus. This configuration seemed to be quite fast,
easily playing a DVD strictly in software. No real benchmarks were given, but as soon as
we have them, you'll have them.

The L2 cache on these babies is currently running at 1/3 clockspeed, but is completely
configurable, and will likely be running faster by release time."

They also talk about the benchmarks run on the K6-3 400 and PII 450. If the K6-3 does perform that well it will be the fastest Windows processor until K7 comes out. Right?

Elmer- that answers the question about L2 cache, but no benchmarks. And it will stay that way officially until the K7 is released.
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