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To: Paul Engel who wrote (68619)	8/12/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573230

Paul, RE:"Vince - Re: "Do you think the 667 Coppermine will be speed-competitive with the 650 Athlon " Yes. The Coppermine will have a full speed 256K 667 MHz L2 Cache on chip - as opposed to the K7's off chip, half (or third) speed L2 cache. Not to mention - the Coppermine will be 41% SMALLER than the K7 - so it will be manufacturable in very high volumes from the get-go. Paul "... I don't believe you answered the mans question correctly. The Answer is NO. A 667MHz Coppermine won't be as fast as a Athlon 650. Oh maybe on Winstone 99 but Intel already trashed that benchmark. Really doesn't matter because if the Coppermine hits 667MHz before the end of the year it's too late to be in Christams boxes and besides that, AMD will just jack the Athlon to 700MHz or ever 750MHz on .25u. The Athlon on .25u will outrun the Coppermine on .18u. Now according to Youseless, the Anti-Processist, this means that AMDs process technology is better than Intels. Of course, we know different don't we? Something like the new K7 core outscales the heck out of the old P6 core.