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To: FJB who wrote (26281)	5/1/1998 3:51:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 33344

Bob - Regarding Katmai, Intel and Lehman Brothers The formal introduction time frame, according to Intel, may be mid-1999, but that does not reflect the status of the Katmai project. Bear in mind that the new Katmai 3D/double precision floating point MMX instructions will require new software written to take advantage of these instructions, new drivers for graphics libraries such as DirectX 6.0. OpenGL drivers, etc. To that end, Intel will most likely have Katmai samples shipped to developers well ahead of the "mid-1999" introduction date. Intel will also make sure these developers have an opportunity to see the performance of Katmai New Instructions versus AMD's 3DNOW technology in their K6-2 chip. At the same time, a second generation Katmai is in the works to speed up the chip even further - by adding an on board L2 cache , running at FULL CPU speed. This L2 cache is rumored to be 256 KiloBytes. I would suspect that "mid-1999" introduction will apply to this chip and that the first version of Katmai may see "limited" production this year - if developers demand it. As for Mendocino, it isn't yet on the verge of release since first silicon is rather "new". However, it should appear well before the end of this year as the Mendocino will provide the Celeron performance "demanded" by many of Intel's OEMs. And Intel likes to keep the OEMs happy. Paul

To: FJB who wrote (26281)	5/1/1998 5:06:00 PM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Bob, Re: "AMD likely fully converts to 0.25 micron production a few months ahead of Intel." We have been over this many times, Bob ... Intel's .25um process is well ahead of AMD's .25um process particularly in performance. You see Bob, Intel's FET's (devices) are much more aggressive at lower operating supply voltages. Thus, Intel can deliver 300mhz PII's in a .35um process, while AMD needs their .25um process. Maybe some day, Bob ... you will open your eyes. Make It So, Yousef