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To: Scumbria who wrote (37473)	4/26/2001 3:50:31 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

AMD touts size advantage of new chip By John G. Spooner Special to CNET News.com April 26, 2001, 11:10 a.m. PT Good things come in small packages, Advanced Micro Devices executives told investors Thursday at the company's annual shareholders meeting. AMD disclosed that the first of several forthcoming processors, code-named Clawhammer, will be only 105 millimeters square--about the same size as a current Athlon chip and half the size of Intel's current Pentium 4 chips. But it will deliver more than three times the clock speed of the first Athlon, and its small size will help AMD hold down capital expenditures. news.cnet.com

To: Scumbria who wrote (37473)	4/26/2001 3:57:33 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

"A 128 bit P4 DDR system will be much cheaper than an RDRAM system" While I agree with you on that, no one has a chipset that does that yet. The VIA PX266 is a 64 bit wide chipset ( viahardware.com ), and the Intel one is likely to be the same. Ok, so if someone in the future comes out with a 128 bit wide chipset for DDR, then AMD will have some problems. But Intel won't do that, they seem to still be focused on DRDRAM for their performance systems. Maybe VIA or ATI will wise up, but that is still to be seen.