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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (51037)2/26/1999 3:28:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) of 1576340
 
Pravin - Re: " How could AMD come out with a 7th generation processor before the mighty Intel? "

First of all, the K7 IS NOT OUT - it is NOT YET a PRODUCT.

Second, the K7 may be called a 7'th generation CPU - big deal. The main issue is how will it perform.

Judging by the need for AMD to JACK-UP the voltage on the K63, my guess is the K7 will similarly be performance challenged.

Especially since it has smaller on-die cache than the K63 but off-chip cache will run at 1/2 CPU speed.

As for Willamette, that's a future product.

Intel's Pentium III/Coppermine with 256K on chip L2 cache will compete with anything AMD has - and beat it.

Further, Intel will be adding up to 2 MegaBytes of on-chip L2 cache to other 0.18 micron versions of the Pentium III.

These should blow away the K7 - although the lack of K7 industry support seems to make the K7 a non-starter.

Paul
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