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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (32422)	5/4/1998 3:25:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572026

Good news from anandtech.com. The K6-2 is NOT JUST A K6 with added 3D instructions, read it yourself: May 4, 7A.M. ============ Remember that statement AMD made about their K6-2 300 being about as fast as a Pentium II - 400? Well, that might not be 100% BS, in fact, that may be closer to the truth than you expect. According to AMD, much more has been refined "under the hood" with the K6-2, which makes sense considering that if a person were to buy a chip without the intention of taking advantage of the 3DNow Instructions then he/she would be inclined to purchase the plain old K6-300. What did AMD improve? There is no way to know for sure, but AMD is expected to debut their new processor this month at the E3 convention in Atlanta, I guess we'll find out then (I'm hoping I'll actually get the chip by then). Petz

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (32422)	5/4/1998 3:29:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572026

Kevin - Re: " Most likely the Celeron's miserable reception and the continued growth of the low end segment embarassed Intel into devoting more resources to develop Mendocino ahead of schedule." I think the acceptance was OK - but not spectacular. As for Mendocino, First Silicon was due back from the fab and it appears that Intel got it "near-perfect" on the first try. Hence, the accelerated introduction. Paul