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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (41807)	11/18/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578161

Cirrus, That explains a little more about the Japanese pictures. The K7 is running at 500MHz, The K6-3 at 400MHz..and the mention of the Pentium II 450 was a comparison unit. Looks like the Notebooks may have been the K6-3 vs the desktop Pentium II... Might also explain why there is no rush to get the K6-3 out since it runs basically at the same speed as the K6-2....and why the AMD guy mentioned that it was optimized for performance....not MHz. Sounds like a PR rating apology to me but we knew that's what AMD would run into since the K6-3 and 2 are the same core and process...so they will have to find another way to market it rather than cpu speed... We knew that too... Jim

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (41807)	11/18/1998 8:30:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1578161

CirrusLvr, It should seem obvious from the language that www.theregister.co.uk is pretty biased against Intel. That second link you included had this quote: "Strange, then, that Intel employees, unless they are senior spin doctors, are not allowed to view Former and Current Employees of Intel." I just took a look-see at that site. I've seen it before. Personally, I feel it's from some disgruntled former Intel employee who is pursuing his own vendetta. Maybe the webmaster should talk with our buddy Fuchi. ;-) Unless the secret police dressed in white bunny suits come and visit my cubicle real soon, this proves that Intel employees are allowed to view that site, as long as they don't waste too much time doing so. As for K7's fitting inside PC's in the $1,995 to $2,995 bracket, that comes as a real surprise to me. After all, the K7 is not going to be trivial to manufacture. Neither will the chipsets and motherboards. Plus, the K7 is initially going to be in short supply (on the order of hundreds of thousands, compared to Intel's millions). All this means that the K7 should start off at high prices, but apparently, AMD isn't willing to do that. Is AMD hell-bent on turning the x86 CPU market into a commodity? Tenchusatsu

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (41807)	11/18/1998 9:56:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578161

Cringe - Re: " More info about AMD at Comdex" Here's even more - " At one point Atiq Raza, AMD's co-chief operating office and chief technical officer, ambled in, explained the company's difficulty in positioning Sharptooth against Katmai, and then ambled out again..." " In a demo, Krelle put the K7- powered PC through its paces, in which a DVD software version of Godzilla the movie was played. Graphics performance was certainly impressive. " Sounds like AMD pulled out all the stops for the K7 demo - a Godzilla DVD flick ! I guess AMD is sticking to the entertainment/game segment. That will sell a lot of servers ! Paul