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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (71324)	9/7/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574735

Tench, Re: 64 bit K8 etc. Well the K8 has allegedly been in design for a while, so it is not inconcievable that it close to tapeout etc. K7 taped out in may/june last year, which would point to K8 in 2H 2000. Most folks have no idea what to excpect from AMD's K8 as the 64 bit software issue is the biggest conundrum. I had anticipated an x86 core plus an Alpha 64 bit CPU sharing L2 cache in some way. But with Alpha/NT destructing a few weeks ago thats not going to work. Either they will go with simply larger adress/data space and then work with some compiler and S/W vendors. Obviously if Microsoft supports such an effort it would be great for the stock. The best we can likely hope for will be Linux support, enuff Linux folks hate intel that perhaps Linux will run on an AMD platform. I doubt if Sun,Msft, or any major S/W house will support it. Of course if performance and price are good, it could do OK. Now if microsoft were to support it then all bets would be off vs IA64. regards, Kash