To: Bill Jackson who wrote (4508 ) 2/20/1998 7:05:00 PM From: Petz Read Replies (1) | Respond to
Bill, ALL, some non-Intel CPU newswinmag.com Socket 7 is clearly viable. Unless AMD fails to deliver. AMD is our competitor -- but every night I have to pray for their success. Without them, there won't be Socket 7. The interesting thing is that AMD and Cyrix also had their own instructions and all roughly do the same thing differently. So quite a lot of people were asking us why don't we get together? By the time this interview comes out, we'll probably have done that. BOOT: "So you're planning on joining forces with AMD and Cyrix? Of course. We don't benefit by having our own instructions. We added them because it's better, for almost no size -- remember we're focused on small size. For less than a square mm of chip size we added instructions that speed up geometry and lighting transforms by about 2x to 5x. ... We're very happy to clone AMD, if you want to put it that way, because I think that's the best thing for the alternate marketplace, which is the best thing for the PC industry. There is no advantage to Slot 1. Intel's clearly doing it just to drive everyone else out of business. By the end of the year we'll do a backside L2 on the chip. Our chip's so small, we're doing 0.25 micron technology and adding L2. You do those things and there's no technical advantage on Slot 1 -- it just adds cost. So we looked at it and said we're not going to do it unless Intel forces us. BOOT: What do you think of the Super 7 initiative? ...I'll be a super 7 member, arm-in-arm with AMD.
