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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (61298)	6/10/1999 4:44:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1572167

AMD Interview Not much info we don't know. "Q: Initial tests on the K7 FPU are giving contradictory results. How do you expect the FPU to compare to the Pentium III FPU? How much more powerful is this unit on the K7? Any benchmark numbers on the K7 that you have seen in public are not endorsed by AMD. These are typically pre-production versions of the silicon that may have certain performance functions disabled. You shouldn't put faith in everything you read on the Internet, especially when tests are run on pre-production parts. The K7's seventh-generation design FPU is planned to be the most architecturally advanced floating point unit ever delivered in an x86 microprocessor. Q: Does the K7 use copper? If not, when will copper be introduced and what are the clock speeds we will see? No copper at first, but we will move the K7 to copper interconnects (and plan to ship in volume) during the first quarter of 2000 when we bring our Dresden fab online. Q: Recent online reports make it sound like the CPU really isn't finished yet. Is it in fact finished? Yep, it is finished and ready for primetime. We are still on target to announce revenue shipments of the K7 at the end of this month. That does not mean that the parts/systems that have made their way (via dark alleys and backrooms) are representative of final shipping product." combatsim.com