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To: Mani1 who wrote (91932)	2/7/2000 6:40:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1576709

Mani and thread: Another article on AMD's demo of the 1.1G; now who was it that didn't really think that the Athlon could get to 1 G since it had not been demoed yet....well think again! BTW the doubting Thomas was actually a doubting Elmer! ____________________________________________________________ AMD Shows Off 1.1GHz Athlon Chip, Besting Intel's Fastest Chip San Francisco, Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the microprocessor market, showed off an Athlon chip to be sold next quarter running at 1.1 gigahertz, besting Intel's fastest demonstrated chip. AMD showed the Athlon chip, made in its Dresden, Germany, plant using copper interconnections, at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. The chip didn't use any special cooling devices. Current Athlon chips run as fast as 800 megahertz. A gigahertz is equal to 1,000 megahertz. Intel, the world's No. 1 chipmaker, and AMD are locked in a battle to have the fastest chips. AMD stole market share from Intel with chips used in cheap personal computers in 1998, but lost ground last year as Intel fired back with its low-cost Celeron. With Athlon, AMD is looking to challenge Intel with faster, more profitable chips that run servers and powerful PCs. ``If AMD introduces prior to Intel, that puts an important stake in the ground,' said Nathan Brookwood of Insight 64, a research firm in Saratoga, California. ``It used to be that Intel made the fastest chips that ran PCs, and AMD has mounted a formidable challenge here with Athlon.' Intel holds more than 80 percent of the microprocessor market, while AMD has about 15 percent. The Athlon AMD demonstrated today includes a level-two cache memory on the chip. Athlons today use separate chips for the level- two cache, which isn't as fast. The ISSCC is a conference where top chipmakers present papers and plans for technology and innovations that are likely to appear in products in the next 12 months. Intel today said it would ship a 1GHz Pentium III later this year, and AMD has said it will ship a 1GHz Athlon in volume by the end of the year. International Business Machines Corp. is expected to demonstrate a chip operating as fast as 4.5GHz on Wednesday, but didn't say when it might be sold. Intel demonstrated a 1GHz processor last year that used aluminum interconnects and had a special cooling device to keep it from overheating at high speeds. The technology AMD used to make the fastest Athlon was co- developed with Motorola Inc. Feb/07/2000 18:07 For more stories from Bloomberg News, click here. (C) Copyright 2000 Bloomberg L.P. Any redistribution of Bloomberg content, including by framing or similar means, is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Bloomberg L.P. Any reference to the material must be properly attributed to Bloomberg News. The information herein was obtained from sources which Bloomberg L.P. and its suppliers believe reliable, but they do not guarantee its accuracy. Neither the information, nor any opinion expressed, constitutes a solicitation of the purchase or sale of any securities or commodities.(C) Copyright 2000 Bloomberg L.P. BLOOMBERG, Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg News Radio are trademarks, tradenames and service marks of Bloomberg L.P.