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To: Maxwell who wrote (41774)	11/18/1998 1:32:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572560

A few clarifications here, Max: <Unlike Intel, AMD K7 architecture is open to anyone free of royalty. AMD welcomes chipset makers to design chipsets for K7. This is a good technique to get the whole industry adopting K7. Thus I don't think AMD is in trouble here.> On the contrary, AMD has no choice but to have other chipset makers design K7 chipsets. The problem is that if the other companies aren't on the ball designing the K7 chipsets, AMD could find themselves releasing the K7 on some very defeatured chipsets which could hamper its performance. Then again, AMD has companies like Compaq behind them, but I don't know how well Compaq can design chipsets. SiS, Ali, and Via aren't very well known for designing fully-featured chipsets from the start; it usually takes them two or three tries. <There is no need for socket for K7 in the low end. K6-2 and subsequently K6-3 are more than sufficient to keep supersocket K7 well into 1999. Supersocket 7 is superior to socket 370 because of its 100MHz bus.> Huh? Intel is going to be releasing the 440ZX chipset in 1999, which is like a 100 MHz version of the Celeron's 440EX chipset. Considering that socket 370 is also coming out in 1999, why wouldn't the 440ZX support the socket at 100 MHz? The only question is when, i.e. when will Intel move Celeron to the 100 MHz bus? It's not like the Mendo-Celeron actually needs it yet until it hits the 400 MHz frequencies. Tenchusatsu