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To: Elmer who wrote (41601)	11/16/1998 9:09:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1574539

Elmer, Did I lump you in with Yousef? <G> Sorry. -------- Finally I find out where the K6-3 is supposed to fit... news.com RE:"The K6-3 will be positioned as AMD's first chip specifically designed for the notebook market, said Rob Herb, senior vice president and chief marketing executive. The chip will run at 450 MHz and higher, as well as come with 256KB of integrated cache memory, or twice the memory that Intel currently puts on its Celeron chips. The chip will come out on the 0.25-micron manufacturing process and then shift to the more advanced 0.18-micron process in the second half of the year. The shift will result in smaller but more powerful chips. AMD sells low-voltage versions of the K6-2 for notebooks, but this is the company's "first focused mobile offering," Herb said. The K6-3 will also use the faster 100-MHz system bus. The fact that the chip will be used in notebooks will also mean that it will likely act as a way to bring AMD processors into commercial systems, he said. Intel, for its part, is not taking the notebook challenge lightly. In the first half, Herb and others said it will release "Dixon"--a version of the Pentium II with integrated cache memory. Intel has also promised to release 600-MHz versions of the coming "Coppermine" chip for notebooks in the second half of next year. "