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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (36384)	8/27/1998 11:56:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571224

Jim, Around the first week of November you will see the K6-2-400. Is that a wild guess? I can't imagine that that is possible. But, if it is, Intel will be in serious trouble if they can't push up the release of a 500 Mhz Katmai. I suspect that this is exactly what they will do (I hope they have time to test it!). Pravin.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (36384)	8/27/1998 11:36:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571224

Re: "AMD will be within one speed grade of Intel at that time. " Not likely Jim. Intel's top speed part is fully 28.5% higher frequency than AMD's top speed part. Virtually exactly the same ratio as when Intel introduced the 300mhz PII and AMD's top speed part was 233mhz. In terms of frequency, AMD is now 100mhz behind when in the past they were only (400-333.33) = 66.66. AMD was on a par when they announced the K6 with both the K6 and the PentiumMMX at 233 and the PPro behind at 200. The PII came out at tops of 266mhz which was only 14% faster. The gap is now DOUBLE percent wise what it was when the PII first came on the scene. Do you see a pattern here? As always, AMDites project where they will be in the future based on where Intel already is. EP