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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (55221)4/12/1999 12:32:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1572825
 
Jim,

Coppermine at 600 on .18u and K7 at 600 on .25 doesn't give Intel their usual distance ahead.

This is true. But the real trouble for Intel lies ahead, because:

1. K7 is a brand new design which undoubtably has lots of low hanging fruit for speedpath enhancement. If they can ramp the MHz at the same rate as the K6 ramp, they will hit 1GHz in 0.25u in a year.

2. 0.18u and copper offer additional potential for MHz improvement.

3. The FPU performance of K7 is probably better than Coppermine.

Scumbria
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