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To: Steve Porter who wrote (41180)	11/10/1998 8:24:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578421

I think its clear what happened to the K6-3 intro: 1. AMD found a way to up the speed of the K6-2 to 400 MHz, and the "write allocate" improvement allows it to match a P2-400. 3 months ago or a year ago, this was not anticipated. 2. AMD decided to increase the "bottom" speed of the K6-3 to 450 MHz rather than start it at 400 MHz as was predicted in the october, 1997 Sander's speech. Clearly, in 1997, Sanders promised a 400 MHz K6-3 will be shipped in 1998. I suspect AMD will indeed ship a few thousand K6-3's in 1998, technically meeting the schedule, *but the increase in speed to 450 MHz* is very significant, and easily be worth a month or two delay to ramp to full production. Petz