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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68790)	8/14/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573797

Re: "By the time AMD actually gets to 800MHz" They have to sell their first 500MHz first. They haven't yet. EP MIA-thlon... Still Missing In Action....Time to send out a searching party?

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (68790)	8/14/1999 11:34:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573797

Cirruslvr, <Review of Fastest Athlon PC tomshardware.com By the time AMD actually gets to 800MHz, they will be using PC133 or DDR SDRAM, so the Athlon should scale even better than these benchmarks show.> That was a good review. I am kind of pleased to see Athlon scaling that well. Especially on the commercial side, AMD could pull of a surprise by supporting PC133/200/266 early and getting a bigger lead for the Corporate Server/Desktop market. I wonder how a CuMine which has half the L1 and half the L2, but at full speed, would fare. I also share Toms concerns about cache speed as the frequency scales. Not only is it a speed/availability issue but a profitability issue. SRAM market is very tight right now and AMD can throw away a lot of margin dollars by going outside for them. I was thinking AMD would use Dresden to get some high speed SRAMs before the year is over but that looks unlikely unless AMD is doing some serious sandbagging. Chuck