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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90722)	2/1/2000 1:41:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1572107

I can't imagine how a 1 GHz Athlon isn't going to be crippled by PC100 or PC133 SDRAM. Every CPU since 486-50, Pentium 60/66 has been "crippled" this way. You add larger and faster caches. Also, what helps is that when you are looking at benchmark results displayed like this: Super Duper CPU, 800 MHz, $900: X~XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX - 61 Super Duper CPU, 700 MHz: $600: X~XXXXXXXXXX - 60 Super Duper CPU, 600 MHz: $400: X~XXXXX - 59 Super Duper CPU, 500 MHz: $100: X~X - 58 Joe

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (90722)	2/1/2000 9:41:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572107

Tench, AMD plans to deploy the AMD-760 and AMD-770 chipsets in 2001 at a 266-MHz microprocessor bus speed, said Ron Huff, division marketing manager at the company's Computation Products Group in Sunnyvale, Calif. "I thought AMD was going to release a 266 MHz EV6 bus sometime in 2000. Would this qualify as a slip? Also, it seems that AMD won't be able to support DDR until 2001 as well. I can't imagine how a 1 GHz Athlon isn't going to be crippled by PC100 or PC133 SDRAM." I wouldn't disagree with any of those comments. This would appear to me to be a slip. At the same time...who is to say that Via won't have a chipset that supports DDR this year? -Scot