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To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/30/1997 7:33:00 AM
From: Dave Parr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Wednesday October 29 12:38 PM EST Company Press Release Techmedia Ships New Generation of Systems "I think this is the article James was referring to, Yousef please see the note at the bottom of this post.......thanks for the news David." GARDEN GROVE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 29, 1997--Techmedia, an international manufacturer of high-performance computer systems, monitors, notebooks, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM drives, Wednesday announced it is shipping the next generation of its signature systems -- the new MediaPro Plus and MediaPro II Plus featuring Intel's Pentium/Pentium II MMX processors and AMD's K6 MMX enhanced processors. Each system accommodates hard drive space of up to 6.4GB, is Internet ready with a 33.6k or 56k modem containing voice, full duplex and speaker phone, has pipeline burst cache, and expandable EDO memory. High-speed CD-ROM and DVD-ROM drives, a 3D video graphics accelerator with 4MB of memory, and a 16-bit sound card with 20 watt 3D stereo speakers are all standard on the MediaPro Plus and MediaPro II Plus systems. Both are Year 2000 compliant, and have processing speeds to 300MHz or faster. Techmedia designed the new systems to feature an ATX motherboard which efficiently uses and conserves power by enabling the operating system to sense devices not in use and shut them down. The ATX motherboard has two universal serial bus ports to facilitate a larger daisy-chain for peripherals, as well as built-in 512KB cache memory. Ultra Direct Memory Access allows data to be transferred between the hard drive and processors at 33MB per second, which significantly increases processing and access time. Prices for the MediaPro Plus and MediaPro II Plus series range form $949 to under $2,900. Techmedia Computer Systems Corp., established in 1994, supplies its signature MediaPro Series systems, high-resolution monitors, as well as peripherals to a continually expanding international customer base. Sales and manufacturing facilities in North America are located in major cities throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. South American operations include Argentina, Brazil (two locations), Chile and Uruguay. Sales: 800/379-0077. Web site: www.techmedia.net . biz.yahoo.com "Yousef, is this the voltage specification that you said had to be under 2.0 volts" AMD plans to beat Intel's best in '98 AMD expects the first chips to run at 233MHz or possibly 266MHz and says they will support System Management Mode and 1.8-volt operation. www1.zdnet.com .....Dave

To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/30/1997 12:34:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

All (except Intel's chirch members) - two pieces of complementary info, from: sscs.org Abstracts: 15.4 - A 450MHz IA32 P6 Family Microprocessor - 3:15 PM J. Sch'tz, R. Wallace Intel Corp., Hillsboro, OR "A third-implementation P6 microprocessor has 7.5M transistors in a 131mm2 die in a 0.25mm process, and achieves 450MHz. Circuits operate between 1.4V and 2.2V to provide enhanced support for both mobile and servers. A 3.6GB/s back-side bus supports two L2 cache types, with up to 2MB on separate cache chips." 15.7 - A 0.25mm x86 Microprocessor with a 100MHz Socket 7 Interface - 4:45 PM R. Khanna, A. Ben-Meir, L. DiGregorio, D. Draper, R. Krishna, R. Maley, A. Mehta, S. Oberman, L. Tsai, T. Williams Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA "Performance increases up to 10% due to micro- architectural improvements in the K6 microprocessor family. Floating-point instructions enhance graphics performance. A 100MHz socket 7 bus is implemented. The 80mm2 die is in 0.25mm 5-layer-metal CMOS with tungsten local interconnect, a standard 3.3V I/O interface, and a 2.2V internal supply."

To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/30/1997 1:26:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 6843

David, fantastically good article you posted www1.zdnet.com One thing you didn't mention is that it says that even the K6/3D (not the 'plus' version), due out early '98, will have built in L2 cache, and the die size is only 81 mm. Previously it was thought that only the K6+3D would have the L2 cache. The cost of production for this chip will be lower than the cost of the *parts* Intel has to buy to make a Slot 1 Pentium II. *The cost of the Intel Slot 1 purchased parts doesn't go down at all when they go to 0.25 micron fabrication.* Petz

To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/30/1997 6:18:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Yousef and Paul, Any comments on the 1.8 volt mobile K6 233? Does this change your opinion on AMD's .25 micron process at all? exchange2000.com Cheers, Kevin

To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/30/1997 6:36:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

David Re -- K6+ on chip cache will have a 50% performance advantage over Deschutes 100Mhz cache. Yeah! right. And the Sun will not Rise in the east. Stockman

To: David A. who wrote (1837)	10/31/1997 4:22:00 AM
From: David A.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Hi Everyone, Here is some speculation on who will produce Notebooks with AMD inside. www1.zdnet.com -------- AMD's announcement that it will kick off its efforts to be big in notebooks with a joint-announcement with a big notebook maker in January has got gamblers sucking their pencils. Well, there's only four big names in notebooks: IBM, Dell, Toshiba and Compaq. IBM's not bold enough to go first while Dell and Toshiba are true blue Intel camp followers so that leaves Pfeiffer's men. No inside gen on this one but The Luncher is taking bets on his hunch. ------- Aloha, David A.