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To: William B. Kohn who wrote (6952)	2/23/1998 8:32:00 AM
From: Harold Engstrom	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 11555

From AMD thread: 1. Windows magazine says Cyrix 6X86MX-266 (actually runs at 208 MHz) is faster than all P2-266 systems and their reference P2-300 system winmag.com 2. Run, don't walk to newstand and buy the March issue of BOOT magazine (its not on their website)..."They call him 'Mr. Chips,' [Glenn Henry] and he's challenging Intel with the WinChip C6+, a low-cost Socket 7-compatible CPU optimized for Win95 and DirectX. Listen to the maverick celebrate his built-in-3D acceleration while he knocks Andy Gorve and the "marketing ploy" called MMX." Heres some interesting quotes from Mr. Henry: 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. ...on Slot 1 (BTW, Henry argued within IBM against microchannel, so he's been there, done that) 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. Petz