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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joey Smith who wrote (54593)4/7/1999 7:39:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) of 1576572
 
<AMD investors might want to check out this article on K7 coming from a "rah-rah" AMD site.>

As much as I'd like to believe that this is good news for Intel, I have my doubts. Quoting from Bugs Bunny, "I must be dreaming. It couldn't be this easy."

Saying things about the performance of "alpha" silicon really isn't saying much. Remember two years ago when Tom Pabst (Herr Uberclockermeister) got a hold of pre-production Klamath silicon (the first Pentium II) and gave a very lackluster preview of the chip? Then once the real Pentium II was released, its performance was much better than what Tom had predicted based on the pre-production Klamath.

I think right now AMD is still trying to work out many issues, like whether they can increase the speed of the L2 cache, how fast they can actually run the processor bus, and most importantly, whether they can introduce the K7 at some sort of speed above the baseline of 500 MHz. The "alpha" K7 chips that some of the developers have in their possession may just be older "defeatured" chips used for platform (as opposed to performance) validation.

Yes, that June/July timeframe is coming awfully close, and problems are problems, but I'll continue to reserve judgement on the K7 until its release.

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