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To: Goutam who wrote (73384)	9/28/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573806

RE:"To: +Goutama Sai Kantamaneni (73382 ) From: +Goutama Sai Kantamaneni Tuesday, Sep 28 1999 5:57PM ET Reply # of 73384 AMD Inside Info... Monday, September 27, 1999 - 9:08 PM Andrew Oliver According to sources inside AMD, there are major developments happening, all of which benefit the end user. The Athlon (k7) is in testing at 900 and 1000mhz, both versions seem ready for production using standard cooling methods! The Athlon 800mhz version is already in production, and is sitting ready to ship as soon as Intel produces a faster chip than is currently available. AMD engineers also overclocked an Athlon 700mhz to 950mhz using standard cooling, and in lab testing commonly hit 1000mhz. Athlon 800mhz cores are overclocking to 1100mhz with a much better than expected success rate."... AND a couple of Intel faithful laughed nervously... I remember someone (me) here saying the Athlon would run 1000 MHZ on .25 and 1400 on .18u. Someone bookmarked me for later reference. Who was that? Looks like my sources may not have been so crazy after all. <G> McJimbo

To: Goutam who wrote (73384)	9/29/1999 1:11:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1573806

<AMD Inside Info... Monday, September 27, 1999 - 9:08 PM Andrew Oliver According to sources inside AMD, there are major developments happening, all of which benefit the end user. > Interesting! The language in the report is a little flaky but the numbers seem believable. As I have suggested a few times on this thread, my understanding is that Professionals and Ultras are likely to debut at higher MHz than Athlons and Selects (unlike Intel where Xeons are running behind the mainstream desktop line). We already know 700MHz Athlons are due this weekend. So, the numbers on what is in the lab does seem to be in the ballpark. (Also fits the rumors that AMD will release a newer speed grade, if necessary, after CuMine launch) The only thing that looks a little high is the 1.5 GHz number. Some conservative contacts of mine with pretty solid knowledge of CPUs put that number at more like 1.2 GHz. But no one seems to have a good handle on what benefits Copper give and how much Athlon will gain when it goes from pseudo-0.25/0.18 (where it is right now) to real 0.18. So, we will not really know until we see production volumes.