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To: Paul Engel who wrote (39733)10/20/1998 8:57:00 PM
From: kash johal  Respond to of 1578339
 
Paul,

> Why did AMD introduce a 95 MHz/333MHz K6-2 a few months ago ?>

Because they could yield them.
Obviously they were ramping to the 350 sweet spot and seeing quite a few yield between the 300/350 speed grade.
Now that the 350's are yielding well, you don't see many 333's. You now have the 366's oddballs today with the 380 oddballs coming soon.

It's all about maximizing ASP's as the customers only understand Mhz.

Hell a 425 or a 433 would not surprise me next quarter they way these oddball frequencies are going.

Kash



To: Paul Engel who wrote (39733)10/20/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr  Respond to of 1578339
 
Paul- "Why did AMD introduce a 95 MHz/333MHz K6-2 a few months ago ?"

I don't know. I thought it was to compete with future DEC chips, or was it the Intel 4004? Wait a sec, now I remember, it came out to compete with a Merced running at 2.5GHz. Yeah, that's right. Shouldn't you have known that?


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