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To: Goutam who wrote (80029)	11/16/1999 12:49:00 PM
From: Mani1	Respond to of 1577594

Goutama Re <<Something very interesting: it seems that AMD has done some serious re-engineering on the 6-Core. There are other major (!) changes...>> This is very surprising to me. Should be interesting to follow. Mani

To: Goutam who wrote (80029)	11/16/1999 12:56:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1577594

Goutama, <According to this, k6-2+ will have 3D-now extensions. This means that they are making extensive changes to the core, and all future AMD CPUS will have the enhanced 3DNow support! If true, it won't surprise me if they reveal beefed up FPU for performance improvements :o) > Frankly this beats me. I haven't heard anything on this front to even remotely suggest something like this was going on. It is unusual to invest in an old core just to keep the low-end going and I don't see it making much sense if the target is PC market alone. Which tells me that this core is probably being done for SOC market (info appliance, game-box, very low-end PC, etc.) and the PC portable and low-end applications probably are opportunistic secondary markets. Let's see. Chuck