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To: kapkan4u who wrote (98444)	2/7/2000 6:55:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Man that AMD is a pesky lot! New 52 week high too,,, RE:"AMD Shows Off 1.1GHz Athlon Chip, Besting Intel's Fastest Chip 2/7/00 3:07:00 PM Source: Bloomberg News 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. ---- Jim

To: kapkan4u who wrote (98444)	2/7/2000 9:53:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

kk, >http://www.cnetinvestor.com/newsitem-bloomberg.asp?symbol=75... That's nice, but this was by far the most important announcement of the day: "--Intel confirmed today that its next-generation, high-end processor will come out at 800 MHz when it debuts later this year. Among other benefits: A four-processor Itanium server using a standard Intel chipset will be able to handle 64 gigabytes of memory, far more than traditional server systems, said Gadi Singer, one of the head researchers on the Itanium project. Singer also said that the system bus used with the chip will perform 266 million transfers per second--roughly equal to 266-MHz--which is double the current bus rate. In other news, Intel sources said that the first 1-GHz Pentium III will come out around midyear, with computers using the chips arriving at the same time. " Paul {========================================} Intel: Upcoming Itanium chip will hit 800 MHz By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com February 7, 2000, 11:55 a.m. PT URL: news.cnet.com SAN FRANCISCO--Intel confirmed today that its next-generation, high-end processor will come out at 800 MHz when it debuts later this year. The processor, which has experienced some delays, is the 64-bit Itanium chip. It's Intel's first foray into a high-end market largely defined by such companies as Sun Microsystems and IBM. Intel is currently shipping prototype Itanium chips to computer makers for testing, analysts have said. Although 800 MHz will make the new 64-bit chip slower than Pentium IIIs when it comes out, there are a number of performance benefits for this chip, Intel executives said at the International Solid-State Circuits Conference here. Among other benefits: A four-processor Itanium server using a standard Intel chipset will be able to handle 64 gigabytes of memory, far more than traditional server systems, said Gadi Singer, one of the head researchers on the Itanium project. Singer also said that the system bus used with the chip will perform 266 million transfers per second--roughly equal to 266-MHz--which is double the current bus rate.