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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (103023)	4/8/2000 12:08:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1574757

Cirruslvr, This is from February 27: tomshardware.com Right after Intel I ran back to hall 13 to AMD's booth. Man, what a difference! Large booth, nice food, drinks and ... information! Well, there was a minor problem getting upstairs though. The smart guy who was supposed to check everyone that went up the stairs to the top of the booth couldn't find a press badge on my chest. As a matter of fact I hadn't got any by that time. Thanks to Andreas Stiller I was allowed up though, he smiled and said "I'm vouching for this poor guy" and we disappeared to the 'upper class level'. I wasn't quite sure how to feel amongst all the AMD-executives this time. My last article about the CPU-maker hadn't been exactly flattering and I feared the worst. I couldn't have been more wrong. Everybody was really nice and respectful, so that I almost felt bad about my nasty words from the past. In a funky glass room AMD showed the air-cooled Athlon 1100 that some of the journalists already knew from AMD's neighborhood-show to IDF. The system ran at exactly 1116 MHz and we took the chance of playing around with the system after the presenter had left the room for a few minutes. All software we could try and that was installed on the system ran without a problem. This time we had requested to look inside the case, to see what Thunderbird (Athlon with on-die L2-cache) actually looks like. I was very impressed to see everybody scramble and look for a screwdriver to fulfill my wish. There you have it. That's what 'Thunderbird' looks like. We also got a look inside the system as you can see above. AMD is very confident that they can keep up with Intel in terms of processor performance and increase their market share even more. Most of you know about AMD's upcoming dual-CPU chipset, the increase in front side bus speed from 200 MHz to 266 MHz, the upcoming quad-processor chipsets developed in cooperation with API and HotRail and finally the fact that the majority of Athlon platforms will very soon be using DDR-SDRAM to compete against Intel's expensive RDRAM-solutions. If you click on the link, you will see the pictures Joe