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To: Elmer who wrote (36163)	8/17/1998 10:31:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1570725

ELmer, Thanks for the correction, I was not sure if the K6-2 could have been shoehorned into the Celeron socket coming next year or not. By then the K6-2 will be topping out in the 400-450 area and their K7 will be trying to catch intel? I am not sure this new celeron will take off the way Intel hopes as it will have quite a cost disadvantage versus the K6-2s which will have the low cost of the old socket to help them. Bill

To: Elmer who wrote (36163)	8/18/1998 1:23:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570725

Bill & Elmer, I don't think there's much point in AMD licensing the P6 bus protocol. NSM has had the opportunity for a year and hasn't started on any P6 bus products that I'm aware of. The P6 bus protocol is unnecessary with on-chip L2 cache of a reasonable size (with only 128K on the Mendocino, though, cache accesses will be twice as frequent but take half the time, so it will be a wash vs. the Pentium II). The new socket470 packaging should have adequate heat dissipation for the 0.25u generation. Since mendocino with socket 470 will be the cheapest way for Intel to make a CPU, I suspect it will replace the Pentium II cartridges quickly. Petz