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To: Profits who wrote (25821)	11/11/1997 10:52:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580455

Profits, <AMD was never targeting the K6 at multiprocessor environments (aka servers). > That's what any good marketing group would say if their product was non competative. <Servers represent less than 2% of the overall market. > Kind of like AMD. <AMD will address this market with future generations of processors> AMD will improve yields and post a profit next quarter. <In terms of performance, the K6 benefits from having a 2 bus cycle latency vs the PII's 5 - 7 bus cycle latency caused by the split bus architecture. So in terms of performance in a uniprocessor environment (>98% of the market) the K6 is faster> 2 bus cycles or 2 bus clocks? The PII doesn't have bus cycles but rather bus transactions. The access to L2 is faster for the PII and the split bus archeticture is only half the advantage. The split transaction archeticture is the other reason for the major PPro/PII advantage in SMP systems and socket7 machines (even Pentiums) are simply no match. The GTL+ signal termination of the Slot1/Socket8 bus archeticture provides for much better dampening of transmission line affects as well as faster logic transitions due to the lower voltage swing. Scaling to higher frequencies will be much easier for the Intel bus because of the greater signal integrety. You have a EE so I'm sure you understand the difference. <So in terms of performance in a uniprocessor environment (>98% of the market) the K6 is faster. > Of course it is, on a small select set of benchmarks ignoring the greater number of ones that Intel wins. EP