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To: Saturn V who wrote (73083)2/6/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Saturn V, as you point out about the K7, it's a whole 'nuther ballgame from any CPU chip that AMD has intro'd so far. The speed aspect you mention is key. We're not talking classic textbook waveforms anymore at 500 MHz and up. Anybody designing up there better send some engineers to transmission line theory school. Designs with marginal speed problems can appear to work, but become very flakey at different temperatures or with power supply fluctuations. Also, socket sensitivity can creep in with speed problems, which can drive a manufacturer crazy. Related to socket sensitivity can be that certain CPU's only work with certain chipsets. More hair pulling.

AMD has not been able to sell CPU chip one into the corporate market yet. In fact, in my experience, companies are still buying almost exclusively Pentium IIs. They're not even buying Celerons! I wonder about the K7's chance in getting accepted into the corporate market, especially with AMD's additional twin albatrosses of bad financials and history of manufacturing problems and attendant mediocre yields and reliability. I don't think they'll get into the corporate market with the K7, and it's probably going to be too expensive for the home market. So what to do with this thing?

Tony
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