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To: Elmer who wrote (36621)	9/2/1998 12:24:00 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571973

Elmer, Re: "That's not closing the gap, that widening the gap. Dead even to 100 mhz behind." ...And this is being driven by the fact that AMD's IC process has been technologically inferior to Intel's at both .35um and .25um . I expect this to continue at .18um as well. The vast majority of this is due to a higher drive current FET that Intel has developed/characterized. This is not due to "architecture" differences (Ali is wrong). Make It So, Yousef

To: Elmer who wrote (36621)	9/2/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1571973

Elmer, <When AMD announced their 233/200/166mhz K6, Intel was shipping 200mhz PPros and 233mhz Pentiums...> When AMD announced the 166-233 MHz K6's, hardly any parts were 233 MHz and production was very limited. Less than 100K of the K6-233's were sold before July'97, so to say AMD was equal to Intel in speed was true only on paper and only for a couple weeks. <When Intel announced their Pentium II Intel gained a 28.57% speed advantage.> As I pointed out in my post Message 5632938, the advantage was more than that (about 42%), because the Pentium II outperformed the K6 at the same clock speed due to faster L2 cache. Now the "Intel advantage" is down to a true 450:350 = 300:233 = 29%. Before the end of the year it will be 450:400 (12%). If this 400 MHz chip is a K6-3, it will be ZERO unless Intel releases Katmai more than six months before the software from Microsoft to support it (DirectX 7.0) is available. <ggg> Petz