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To: steve harris who wrote (75260)	10/12/1999 11:50:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573718

steve, What if AMD solves the Rambus problems first? As I see it rambus licences ram makers and everyone can make boards that use their products? they may have to get a rambus licence? Do they have it now? With Intel a major holder of rambus would they try to prevent AMD from using rambus? Does the Athlon advanced bus systems already beat rambus in bandwidth to such a degree that the Athlon has no need of rambus? Bill

To: steve harris who wrote (75260)	10/13/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573718

steve - <"The advance transfer cache will improve the performance by about 10 percent," said Brookwood. "They [Coppermine and Athlon] will be very close." > Somebody has been saying this for a while now. I only bring this up because until just last week, there was a big contingent that just knew conventional wisdom dictated that the 5 year old PPro core couldn't possibly compete with K7 clock for clock. <Coppermine, however, will fall behind Athlon if Intel is unable to pair it with next-generation Rambus memory. Some estimate that Rambus memory won't hit PCs until November at the earliest."> We'll see who's the fastest on the 25th. You are not taking one factor into your equation. I'm not going to spell it out for various reasons. The information is out there. To reiterate what I've been saying, it will be close. I don't believe K7 to be a runaway product performance wise. PB