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To: Mani1 who wrote (93515)	2/16/2000 4:46:00 AM
From: Process Boy	Respond to of 1570954

Mani - <I am not a EE and I know little about these stuff. I just made an observation on that exchange.> As for my responses to kap at the time, they were rather cryptic in nature. I had only heard that the ALU would be running at twice the base frequency. I assumed he was trying to pump me for detail I could not disclose until today. BTW, I don't know any more than what was disclosed today on the ALU, and now after Scumbria's rant I have questions on it myself. Maybe "double pumped" is a better term than 2X clock speed? I really don't know. Anyway, I in turn was trying to extract from him in a round about way to spit out what he thought he knew. After I could see this was getting nowhere, I quit responding to the thread topic, even when he made subsequent predictions at a later date. He never did say the ALU would be running at 2x base frequency, and instead came up with FPU at 1/2 frequency, something I had and have not heard at all. I don't know what good all this explanation is. I do remember being quite perturbed that kap as a now non-Intel employee had seemed to catch wind, at least in principle if not accurately, a feature which I was told was highly confidential until the demo. These things happen; still bugs me. PB

To: Mani1 who wrote (93515)	2/16/2000 4:47:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570954

Mani - AMD sneaks around Palm Springs - AMD is Cheapzilla !! At first they denied they had AMD personnel in the hotel -- close to the local Indian casino -- but under pressure confessed there were suites booked by AMD under another name. The little brother of Intel -- AMD -- has booked suites at the Hilton Hotel, two blocks down from Chipzilla's Developer Forum near to the Wyndham Hotel in Palm Springs to queer its pitch, we can reveal. Looks like AMD's attempt to Out-MegaHertz Intel and embarrass Intel may have backfired - or maybe AMD will demo their 1.6 GHz ThumperTurd tomorrow ! Paul {======================================} theregister.co.uk Posted 15/02/2000 10:06am by Mike Magee in Palm Springs AMD becomes Cheapzilla The little brother of Intel -- AMD -- has booked suites at the Hilton Hotel, two blocks down from Chipzilla's Developer Forum near to the Wyndham Hotel in Palm Springs to queer its pitch, we can reveal. AMD, which does not have the millions it takes to do a developer forum, has instead adopted an old database vendor strategy and is wooing journalists and analysts away from the Intel gig, and especially a Willamette keynote speech. But when we talked to staff at the Palm Springs Hilton, on Tahquitz Canyon Road, they said they were embarrassed by the situation. At first they denied they had AMD personnel in the hotel -- close to the local Indian casino -- but under pressure confessed there were suites booked by AMD under another name. The whole situation is uncannily reminiscent of the times when Informix, Oracle and Sybase engaged in database wars. At one Oracle User Conference in Florence, Informix attempted to buy the entire range of advertising space in the Tuscan city. AMD confirmed to us by email early today that it was demonstrating alternative technology to Intel just two blocks down the road, but declined to be interviewed on specifics. According to US AMD representative Stacey Cochran, her company will be conducting a series of off site meetings for journalists and semiconductor analysts.