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To: Scumbria who wrote (100494)	3/28/2000 3:48:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575775

Scumbria some significant info on Spitfire release at rbcomputing.com This is a report on info AMD gave at a resellers conference. Some key points: 1. Desktop K6-2+ is really dead 2. AMD currently has .15 and .13 processors in the lab produced 3. EasyNow will make a second coming sometime in June. This new release should include PCMCIA slots and will be bundled with Windows ME. 4. HERE'S THE BIGGY - Spitfire will be out in April it will come out in 550, 600, 650, 700 versions. {YES, YES, YES} Motherboards will be another story. {OUCH, OUCH, OUCH} 5. New SIMD instructions will be added in late 2000 and 2001 which will handle double precision floating point numbers, faster than the current FPU. {pre-Sledge timing surprises me} 6. AMD is "working closely with Microsoft and a pile of other vendors to ensure that when Sledgehammer is released, it will be taken advantage of. There's a lot more interesting stuff there, take a look. The socket A mobo situation is peculiar. Are vendors under NDA to not even annouce future products? Will OEM's use Slocket-A adaptors until low cost socket mobo's are available, or will AMD just delay the intro? Petz