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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (91640)	2/4/2000 11:57:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577188

There is no guarantee the AThlon will still be a good chip w/o L2 cache. I am sure AMD looked at the possibility and Spitfire was drawn up soon after. The question is: is it at least as good as Celery or Coppermine 128? If it is, AMD should go for it and call it something other than Athlon (Wasn't a name aleron floating around?) This would be a replacement for K6-2(+). If all Atholon sold were Athlon based boards, there would be a market for 20 million or more chipsets for Athlon per year. I think that's a good enough incentive for Via and others (Ali, Sis) to commit to chipset development and motherboards as well. Even though K6 made it to higher clock speeds than many expected, it is still well below Athlon potential, and lower than Coppermine based chip potential. Joe