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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (54547)4/7/1999 2:20:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (2) of 1571031
 
scum bria - Re: "Intel miscalculated about Merced and ignored their x86 program."

Where do you get this idea?

Intel has had IA32 follow-on's on their road map for 3 or 4 years. These have been modified to incorporate changes due to changing market conditions (low cost CPUs) and increased process/yield capability.

That's what is killing AMD - Intel's continued IA32/x86 successes.

Intel has shown how flexible they can be by RAPIDLY introducing the Mendocino and Dixon with on-chip L2 cache - and they left AMD in the "dust" doing this.

Now, you can state that Willamette and Foster are way-late and, to be sure, they are not due out until next year.

But you have to remember - Intel has added functionality to the Willamette project - as well as ON-CHIP L2 caches - which were not in the original design spec. These were incorporated because of Intel's improved processing capability. This has necessarily caused schedule slips.

So, I eagerly await the eventual K7/K8 vs. Willamette battle late next year - or possibly sooner.

In the mean time, Intel's Pentium III will get on-chip L2 cache as you know - Coppermine - and that will provide Intel with a strategic weapon to go up against the Intel-Killer K7 !

Paul
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