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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (46751)1/20/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) of 1572376
 
Kevin - Re: " Since the K6-3 will generally outperform the PIII, "

With 2 MegaBytes of L3 cache - maybe, on integer performance.

For FPU tasks, the K6-3 will be little improved.

For KNI applications, the K6-3 is a no-show : INCOMPATIBLE.

Re: "I think it's pretty safe to speculate that the K7 will outperform them both. "

I think it ISN'T SAFE - my guess is that the K6-3 may outperform the K7 since the K7 has off chip, 1/3 CPU speed L2 cache.

AMD will find themselves in a marketing CRUNCH -the "cheap" K6-3 will be equivalent to the expensive K7 in many applications - they will have a difficult time marketing the K7.

Re: " can AMD produce it COST EFFECTIVELY and in SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH VOLUME before Intel's .18u offerings start appearing."

No - with 34% yields on SMALL DIE - K6-2, the K7 yields are going to be less - perhaps significantly less.

Paul

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