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To: Scumbria who wrote (64345)7/7/1999 2:33:00 PM
From: Process Boy  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586215
 
Scumbria - <K6 was being built at IBM for a while last summer, and actually ran faster on the IBM process.>

This is silly. Architecture is everything. Process is nothing.

PB




To: Scumbria who wrote (64345)7/7/1999 2:40:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1586215
 
<K6 was being built at IBM for a while last summer, and actually ran faster on the IBM process.>

If that's really true, then it would be sheer irony that AMD stopped using IBM as a foundry only to run into speed problems later on with the K6-2.

Tenchusatsu