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To: Petz who wrote (26595)	12/8/1997 1:26:00 PM
From: StockMan	Respond to of 1585969

P, Re -- The reason is that few motherboards back then had the 3.2 volt voltage or a power supply using switching regulators, which is pretty much demanded by the higher current consumption at 3.2 volts. It is NOT because the K6-166 and K6-200 chips themselves would "burn up." THE REAL QUESTION IS WHY DIDN't the K6/233 run at 2.9 volts? when the pentium 233 the K6/166 and k6/200 runs at 2.9? Your answer, which clearly shows your knowledge is because of Motherboards? Shee..sh!!, P, you put Brian to shame.. Even Nusance knows more than you.. Better be careful of that soldering iron. The "hot" side looks good to hold. Stockman

To: Petz who wrote (26595)	12/8/1997 4:18:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Respond to of 1585969

Petz, Petzinger's Motherboard Theory: It does not make any sense (a lot of BS). 3.3V has always being a standard in motherboards for quite sometime. Even K6 uses 3.3V in addition to 3.2V (of the old). In this cut-throat business, you just have to do everything to beat the competition. Both AMD and Intel designed processors to run at 3.3V, but only Intel is confident to run the CPU core at 0.5V lower than 3.3V. Remember the power consumption drops with the square of the Vcc. If you can show your products running at lower power dissipation even if just by a few watts, your product is that much superior over competition. Running the core CPU at 3.3V, it shows AMD's 0.35um process for K6 max out at 233 MHz. Intel is running P-II 300 MHz at 2.8V. There is still a lot of margin left (running 350 Mhz at 3.3V if you can get the heat out). On the 0.25 um front, the technology gap between AMD and Intel would only widen considering even more capital investment and technical know-how. I am just wondering why you keep on drawing the wrong conclusions. Since you only own 100 shares of AMD in your IRA account, you must have a very dislike towards Intel. Why? Too jealous of its success just like Ali Chen? I would like to give you an advice (from an aerospace engineer to another). You need to evaluate the situation without any strong emotion (as an engineer, I hope you know what I am talking about). Open up your mind. The bottom line is to make wise investment and thus money. John.