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To: Elmer who wrote (39102)	10/13/1998 12:26:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 1572506

Elmer: <<Maxwell, you seem to be quite infatuated with this guy. Are you sure this doesn't cloud your judgement?>> 1) Atiq said that the K7 will be the fastest X86 in the world at the launch. 2) Dirk Meyer was the co-architec for the Alpha 21064 and 21264 (currently the champ). He is now the director for the K7 project. It is good to have someone with experience and a good track record leading a big project. 3) Gwennap of Microprocessor Reports reviewed the K7 architecture and said the design is "impressive". 4) We know that K7 is SMP using point to point rather than bus. Memory bandwidth is 1.6GBytes/CPU (200MHz*8bytes/cycle) versus 0.8GBytes total in Xeon SMP. For dual K7 memory bandwidth is 3.2GBytes! As you know memory bandwidth is one of the biggest bottle neck in a computer system. It doesn't take a genius to figure that the K7 is one bad-ass chip. Yes I am obsessed with this K7. It is a great achievement for AMD and computer industry. AMD will make the K7 in volume and affordable for home consumers. Maxwell