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To: Paul Engel who wrote (39496)	10/16/1998 7:00:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572025

Analysts said If the K7 delivers the performance AMD touted, AMD will pose a greater threat to Intel AMD Unveils New K7 Chip 10/13/98 Newsbytes, Tuesday, October 13, 1998 at 16:33 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 OCT 13 (NB) -- By Matt Hines, Newsbytes. Advanced Micro Devices Inc. [NASDAQ:AMD] released some of the design and technology details of its upcoming K7 chip today. Officials from the company told attendees of the Microprocessor Forum that its new processor will run at possible speeds of over 500 megahertz (MHz). AMD's announcement was one of the most highly anticipated events on the first morning of the three-day conference. Intel Corp., which controls roughly 65 percent of the worldwide market for microprocessors according to International Data Corp., has lost some ground to AMD at the low-end of the PC market where the firm has become a popular alternative with manufacturers of sub-$1000 machines. Analysts said that If the K7 delivers the performance capabilities which the company touted today, AMD will likely pose a greater threat to Intel in competing for inclusion in higher-end PC designs. "AMD is definitely moving upstream and wants to compete with Intel head-to-head in more areas than for the sub-$1000 PC market," said Kelly Henry, analyst for International Data Corp. "People are really starting to take AMD very seriously because they've been reporting profits and getting design wins. It will be interesting to see how K7 can compete." AMD officials said that the K7 processor is fully compatible with Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system. AMD also said that K7 will feature 3DNow multimedia technology. Other innovations over the developer's current K6 and K6-2 lines include a nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture, a superscalar pipelined floating point unit, 128 kilobytes (KB) of on-chip level one (L1) cache, a programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface, and a 200 MHz Alpha EV6-compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing. The company indicated that the K7 processor is expected to be available in the first half of 1999 and is planned to operate at clock frequencies faster than 500 MHz. The chip will be based on AMD's 0.25- micron manufacturing technology and will also utilize a "Slot A" PC connection design, which mirrors Intel's Slot 1 connection technology found in most in Pentium II processors. This will make AMD's product more attractive to vendors who will be able to pick a processor without having to vastly alter their PC designs. AMD has said that it will also introduce an updated K6-3 model which will be a 450MHz version of the K6-2 with integrated cache memory.