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To: d e conway who wrote (40436)	10/30/1998 1:50:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573221

Dan, re:<Is your crystal ball clear enough to see a short-term pull-back?> Maybe only to 21. I doubt the gap from 20 to 20-9/16 will be filled. There must be some news out there, such as the Comdex demo being well above 500 MHz or something. AMD is doing really well at speeding up their parts, like the AMD of the yesteryear which had the fastest "LS" parts and the fastest bit-slice processors. The ratio of the fastest K6-2 to the slowest will soon be 1.5 (400/266). By comparison, the Pentium II needs to be at 500 MHz to show the same improvement. Furthermore, even the early PII 0.25µ parts overclocked to 450 and now they reach 504 so there's really been little improvement in PII speed, just a marketing plan to bring out the higher speed grades over time. With AMD the real maximum speed has gone from 300 MHz to 450 MHz. Extrapolating that degree of improvement to the K7 starting "above 500 MHz" and you see some reason for excitement. Petz