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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (18696)	11/11/2000 3:27:58 PM
From: niceguy767	Respond to of 275872

Pravin: "The VCS shopping channel is currently selling a 1 Ghz Athlon system. AMD has pushed 1 Ghz CPUs into the mainstream." AMD can do it when 80% of binsplits are at 1 gig or better...Wait 'til the 1.2 gig/DDR combo grabs hold in the next month or so...It is conceivable that over 50% of Q1 shipments will be at 1 gig or better, in fact, hard to miss if production from fab 30 at end of Q3 was 80% 1 gig or better...I don't think any competitors can boast such heady production results...

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (18696)	11/11/2000 7:02:28 PM
From: TechieGuy-alt	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Last week at the local Best Buy, I say (I think for the first time) a 1GHz Intel HP replaced with a 1GHz AMD Athlon. Till now (at least at the local BB), HP had been offering Athlons upto only 900 MHz. OF course Compaq has had the 1Ghz at BB for quite a while now- with never a 1Ghz prebuilt Intel offered. TG

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (18696)	11/11/2000 7:37:05 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<font color=red>80 percent of the company's Athlon production in Fab 30 in Dresden, Germany, was at 1 GHz and above, according to William Siegle, senior vice president of technology and AMD's manufacturing operations. "By any measure, the past year was a good year for AMD in the microprocessor business," Meyer said. AMD also looks forward to bringing the 64-bit microprocessor generation to the desktop. A previously undisclosed version of AMD's 64-bit Hammer chip, Clawhammer, will begin sampling at the end of 2001 for desktops and server appliances and enter production in the first quarter of 2002. Sledgehammer, a 4- and 8-way capable part for servers, will sample in the first quarter of 2002 and ship a quarter later. More importantly, AMD executives said the 0.13-micron Clawhammer will be smaller than 100 sq. mm, smaller and arguably cheaper than the company's existing Duron low-end PC microprocessor. The Duron is manufactured on a 0.25-micron process, however, about twice as coarse as the 0.13-micron technology. The performance of the Hammer generation will also be improved by AMD's move to a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) process, which can cut the capacitance of the chip. Through this technique, power can either be cut by 30 percent or performance increased by the same amount,Meyer said. SOI equipment is currently being installed specifically for the Hammer generation, he said. more inside.. edtn.com Milo