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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (35459)	8/3/1998 7:10:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573712

Jim, K6-3 is of much less importance to AMD, than Mendocino is to Intel. Intel needs Mendocino to provide an L2 for their Celeron systems. Since K6-2 is a socket 7 part, the L2 cache solution comes with the motherboard. K6-3 will allow for lower cost systems and somewhat better performance, but will not show the relative performance gains seen in the transition from Celery I to Celery II. Scumbria

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (35459)	8/3/1998 8:02:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573712

Jim, I think you are getting a little ahead of yourself. 350 Mhz has not even been officially announced; much less 400 or 450. From past experience we should expect a 4-6 week delay from announcement to systems on the retail shelf (Sure CTX had 300 Mhz K6-2 available shortly after the announcement, but they were the only one; supply was definitely limited). The K6-2 333 is just hitting the shelves now (granted, they did have a 95 Mhz bus problem). If K6-2 350 is announced in August, I wouldn't expect volume availability until the latter part of September. In terms of a 450 Mhz debut of Sharptooth, we must realize that the upper limit of AMD's 0.25u process is not infinity. Pravin.