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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (48852)2/7/1999 1:18:00 AM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 1571931
 
Elmer,

The K7 bus provides the same bandwidth as a 333MHz 64 bit bus, without the many electrical issues associated with high speed busses. The only value that a high speed bus provides is bandwidth.

I'm not clear why they feel they need a high bandwidth bus, but the article Kash quoted mentioned something about full motion video. It sounds like AMD is headed down the same road as Intel, trying to do MPEG in software.

Your objections to the pin count are valid. However, your complaints about K7 bus bandwidth have no basis. From an manufacturing point of view, the K7 solution is much better than a high MHz bus. It also provides higher bandwidth than the 600 MHz DRDRAM bus used by Intel.

Scumbria
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