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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (89941)	1/27/2000 10:52:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572556

Tench - RE: "Seems like while AMD is finding tremendous success in scaling the MHz ladder, their core enhancements aren't coming along as well." It is Mustang that is supposed to get those enhancements. Spitfire and Thunderbird are supposed to get on-chip L2 cache. There is a little bit of info about Foster in this News.com article - yahoo.cnet.com "Foster will provide a new core to replace the current Pentium design, which has been used for years. But more important for ServerWorks, it will provide a new and faster bus that will speed communications between the CPU and its surrounding hardware. Current Pentiums allow communication rates of 800 megabytes per second. The Foster bus will enable rates four times that, 3.2 gigabytes per second." At 200MHz, the Athlon's bus can do 1.6 GB/s, at 266MHz I assume it can do 2.1 GB/s, and at 400MHz 3.2GB/s. All we know of the upcoming Athlon chipset is it will allow 266MHz fsb. AMD has said it can scale to 400MHz. I wonder if they will do that.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (89941)	1/27/2000 11:14:00 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572556

Seems like while AMD is finding tremendous success in scaling the MHz ladder, their core enhancements aren't coming along as well. I'll quote again from MPR, "Room is something one should not leave for Intel." Tenchusatsu You and PB have been telling us CuMine is coming in volume for weeks, but Dell Intel's number one Customer keeps having problem after problem. Dell said they cannot deliver 800Mhz till March 9. Thats almost the END of the QUARTER and INTC released the 800Mhz on Dec 20th. Oh my that's 38 days ago from the INTC launch date and Dell is shipping in another 44 days from today!!! Problems out not solved until day 82 from the release date. INTC 800Mhz press release yahoo.cnet.com Seems Intels woes are more than AMD's from my Seat. Milo "A call placed to Dell showed that a Dimension PC with an 800MHz Pentium III processor, Intel's 820 chip set and 128MB of Rambus dynamic RAM, would not ship until March 9. Intel now has 14 fabrication plants in operation zdnet.com