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To: Petz who wrote (72073)9/17/1999 1:23:00 AM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1573150
 
Petz,

Re: K6-2/3

I see continued life in the K6-3 in 0.18 for laptop market.

Once Coppermine/128K gets the SSE and 100Mhz bus - i see K6-2 as a dead end. And I see this as a Q1 2000 product from Intel at 500-600Mhz speed grades. A 0.18 micron K6-2 will be simply uncompetitive IMHO.

And then we have the issue of requiring an integrated product. AMD better have a partner or be working on a solution for Q2/Q3 2000 - hopefully somebody like SIS/Nvidia et al.

Q1 2000 will be critical to AMD's future.

regards,

Kash.



To: Petz who wrote (72073)9/17/1999 2:41:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr  Respond to of 1573150
 
Petz - RE: "that depends on how well the k6 scales at 0.18u. The k6-3 will be an excellent low end part if it can stay within 150 MHz of Intel's fastest CuMine. Intel will probably sell 128K CuMines up to 600 MHz, leaving the 650, 700 and 733 speeds for the regular CuMine."

My guess is when the Celeron becomes a mini-Cuontimemine, AMD will position the .18 micron K6-III on the 133MHz bus against it.

That way AMD retains the cache, bus speed, and size/cost advantage.


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