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To: Tony Viola who wrote (65446)	9/25/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, and the fact that AMD says they also want the K7 to be commercialized in desktops makes you wonder how "specialized" this chip may be. Also, one other little tidbit worth noting. AMD has virtually no exposure at all in businesses today and they expect companies to hand over mission-critical apps to AMD servers <ggg> Give me a break...Looks like K7 will be a very expensive low-end retail computer <ggg> joey

To: Tony Viola who wrote (65446)	9/25/1998 3:30:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Bottom line is that there is one helluva lot more to getting specified as the µP for a server than just Megahertz, but I'm sure you already knew that. So, isn't comparison of the K7 to Xeon awfully premature? Tony, I was only asking a question, not making a comparison. However, the fact that K7 uses the Alpha bus certainly supports the idea that AMD intends the processor to be used in MP applications. It would be absurd to use an MP bus/memory controller in a single processor system, because of the overhead involved in the cache coherency protocols. Scumbria