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To: Investor A who wrote (6507)	6/2/1998 5:19:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Atiq Raza strongly suggested that there would be markedly higher clock speeds for K7 in the question and answer session during the recent K6-2 intro. Combined with the thermal and cache advantages of the Slot architecture, K7 is shaping up to be a killer product. It will be interesting to see how it shapes up against Willamette (Intel's 7th generation x86 product). Does anyone know when Intel anticipates the introduction of Willamette? I had initially heard that it would appear in the same time frame as Merced, but since that time frame is continually slipping, maybe things have changed. Kevin

To: Investor A who wrote (6507)	6/2/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Fuchi, I have to believe that the K7 is going to be faster than Xeon and Katmai. Xeon is just a PII with a big fast L2 cache, and Katmai is just a fast PII with new 3D instructions. Since the K6 is comparable with the PII (although slightly slower), how could the next generation K7 not be much faster; even if AMD is one or two speed grades behind? Of course, this could be moot, if AMD has problems ramping 0.18u at Dresden, as I'm sure the Willamette will be out on schedule, if not before. I hope we don't have to wait five months before we hear anything about the K7 architecture. Pravin.