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To: Paul Engel who wrote (36071)	8/15/1998 2:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572965

AMD Investors - UMAX uses AMD's K6-2 300 MHz CPU in a Notebook Computer Here's the story. Paul {=================================} techweb.com August 17, 1998, Issue: 696 Section: Hardware 300 MHz On The Road -- Umax Notebook Uses AMD's K6-2 Chip Tom Davey with Mary Hayes Leading scanner vendor Umax Technologies Inc. has begun shipping the ActionBook 330T notebook, which it says is the first portable to use Advanced Micro Devices' 300-MHz K6-2 CPU. Though AMD has been a distant second to Intel in CPU sales, Intel won't have its 300-MHz Pentium II for notebooks until September. The K6-2's 3DNow instruction set is also designed to enhance 3-D, video, and graphics performance beyond what Intel's current MMX technology supports. Intel won't offer improvements similar to 3DNow until it ships its Katmai New Instructions with forthcoming desktop and server chips early next year. Ultimately, such technologies will become important for content-creation applications. In the last year, Umax also began selling Intel-based notebooks and PCs. Its systems have been geared mainly toward small businesses, education markets, and consumers, but the company wants a bigger presence in corporations. "We're looking to leverage our success in the scanner market for these products," says national sales manager Mic Greyer. "We have relationships with all the major distribution partners." The 330T, priced at $1,899, integrates diskette, CD-ROM, and 4-Gbyte hard drives. The 7.3-pound unit has 32 Mbytes of RAM and a 12.1-inch active matrix screen. Umax says its NiMH battery runs up to two hours. Copyright r 1998 CMP Media Inc.