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To: Paul Engel who wrote (38906)	10/9/1998 1:23:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573023

AMD's 500 MHZ 32-bit K7, due in the first half of next year, will be fast, powerful and designed for the corporate customer. The initial chip speeds will start at 500 MHz and climb eventually to 1 gigahertz; performance-enhancing cache memory will range from 512 Kb to 2 Mb; and PC companies will be able to build systems using multiple K7 processors. For the first time, AMD will have the products to challenge Intel's extremeley lucrative stranglehold on the high end of the PC marketplace, and, with the K7, the company will continue its policy of pricing its chips 25 percent less than Intel's.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (38906)	10/9/1998 1:25:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573023

The 500-MHz K7 complete with the Slot A architecture, 512KB of Level 2 cache memory. It is AMD's challenge to Intel's high-end Xeon processor and due in the first half of 1999. NEW FALL MICROPROCESSOR LINES At next week's Microprocessor Forum -- the industry's debutant's ball -- virtually every microprocessor company will be taking the wraps off new speeds, feeds and designs. Some of the more significant presentations include: Advanced Micro Devices Inc. -- The 500-MHz K7 complete with the Slot A architecture, 512KB of Level 2 cache memory. It is AMD's challenge to Intel's high-end Xeon processor and due in the first half of 1999. Compaq Computer Corp.'s Digital division -- The 64-bit EV7 version of the Alpha, which will run at speeds up to 1GHz in systems that can have as many as 64 of the chips running together as a single system. Intel Corp. -- Katmai New Instructions, the follow-on to the MMX instruction set, designed to run multimedia tasks much faster. Katmai will first appear in 450 and 500-MHz chips in early 1999. National Semiconductor Inc.'s Cyrix division -- The Jalapeno, or M3 core, a virtual do everything system-on-a-chip design that will be used in everything from set top boxes to extremely low-cost computers. Actual chips are expected at the end of next year. Rise Technology -- The newcomer to the x86 chip market will detail its low-cost mP6 Pentium II compatible processor line. The main market for these chips, due early 1999, is expected to be portable PCs priced at less than $800. From SJ Mercury News