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To: Paul Engel who wrote (35028)	7/23/1998 9:07:00 PM
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AMD Investors - AMD is Shipping Samples of 350 MHz K6-2 to Taiwan. The K6-3 is stated to be set for launch in Q498 for Desktops and for notebooks in early 1999. Paul {===========================} infoworld.com AMD samples 350-MHz K6-2, readies K6-3 By Terho Uimonen InfoWorld Electric Posted at 2:37 PM PT, Jul 23, 1998 Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is on target to up the ante in its processor lineup in this year's fourth quarter with the launch of the K6-3, which will integrate 256KB of on-chip performance enhancing Level 2 cache memory, a company representative said. The company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., this month has also quietly started providing samples of a 350-MHz version of its current flagship K6-2 processor family to select Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers. The company is scheduled to start volume supplies of the chip to key system vendors next month, the AMD representative said. After running into several snags late in 1997 and earlier this year, AMD in the past quarter successfully converted its production lines from a 0.35-micron to a more efficient 0.25-micron process technology, which has allowed the company to ramp up volumes as well as reach higher clock speeds. The 0.25-micron process will also allow the chip vendor to design processors with a lower power consumption, and AMD now expects to have mobile versions of the K6-3 ready by next year's first quarter, the company representative said. In the current quarter, AMD expects output of processors to grow by about one million units more than the 2.7 million units produced in the company's second quarter, and to as many as six million units in the fourth quarter, the representative added. AMD's fastest K6-2 processor to date runs at 333 MHz, and while the 350-MHz version will mark an only incremental upgrade, the addition of the on-chip cache memory to the K6-3, which is planned to run at 400 MHz, will give the new processor a significant performance boost, sources at Taiwanese motherboard makers said. The K6-3 will fit into the same Socket 7 architecture motherboards used by the older K6 and K6-2 chips, which will allow PC vendors to use the new processors in existing system designs, the sources said. Next week, AMD will also officially open its new infrastructure group facility in Taiwan, which is aimed at providing validation and support services to the island's hardware makers, the AMD epresentative said. As a result of a technology cross-licensing agreement signed by AMD and Motorola on Monday, AMD by 2000 expects its next-generation K7 processors to reach clock speeds as high as 1GHz. AMD expects to reach the higher clock speeds by using copper-chip manufacturing technology from Motorola that it will apply to a 0.18-micron process at its new wafer fabrication plant currently under construction in Dresden, Germany. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., in Sunnyvale, Calif., can be reached at amd.com. Terho Uimonen is a correspondent in the Taipei bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate. Related articles: "AMD launches K6-2 chip" "AMD posts a loss on falling sales" Go to the Week's Top News Stories Please direct your comments to InfoWorld Deputy News Editor, Carolyn April