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To: andy kelly who wrote (61127)	7/25/1998 1:49:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Andy - Re 'we are looking at a technological blitzkrieg. Has Intel always had a lineup like this or is this time special? " With the exception of Merced - an entirely new CPU architecture -Intel is expanding its prior approach which is to take one basic CPU core architecture - the P6 in this case - and design variants and enhancements around that central core. Couple this with a two year cycle (or less) of process generation introductions (0.25 to 0.18 micron) and Intel can then "double" the amount of new designs by shifting CPUs from one process to another. For example, Katmai is a 0.25 micron Pentium II with new MMX2 instructions, now known as Katmai New Instructions (KNI). Re-designing this on to a 0.18 micron process yields the Coppermine. Further, Intel's process yields have been so good they can now literally "graft" L2 SRAM on to the P6 cores to produce Mendocino (128 K) and DIXON (256 K) CPUs. Look for 0.18 micron versions of these chips coming late in 1999. Intel is on a technology roll - and they are not slowing down. Hopefully, some of their competitors will get "run over". Look for IDTI and NSM to be the first. Paul/