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To: Ed Sammons who wrote (38911)	10/9/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1574711

<Is there any info if AMD also licensed the Alpha FPU implementation or will it be a more traditional pipelined implementation.> Considering how tough it was to implement Katmai New Instructions on top of the tired x86 architecture, it would be very interesting indeed if AMD somehow shoehorned an Alpha FPU into the K7. <From the article posted by Milk (38651), "By 2000, it will run at 1000 MHz, the company (AMD) has said." The same roadmap shows Intel reaching 1000Mhz with Foster in 2001, or extrapolating, 800MHz in 2000. Also Intel's Coppermine and Cascades is shown to be released 2H 1999 at 600MHz. Does anyone know if they will be in .18um. My guess is they will, since Merced was supposed to debut in that time, so Intel will have .18um fab space available in 1999.> Cascades/Coppermine will be Intel's first 0.18um product. As for Foster, the Intel guy said that Williamette/Foster will be running at least 1 GHz. Considering how Intel promised 700 MHz chips before the end of 1999, I would guess that Intel is (or at least should be) aiming at a point significantly higher than just 1 GHz. (Imagine that, just 1 GHz. Knowing Microsoft, that would be the minimum requirement for NT 6.0.) Tenchusatsu