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To: Michael DaKota who wrote (41980)	11/20/1998 1:03:00 PM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1575426

Michael, thanks for the advice on UDMA. Here is a little more news on the K7 and K6-3 from sharkyextreme.com: I think the author meant to say, "high-level AMD sources." -Scot >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>begin quote<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< C o m d e x : A M D K 7 Sharky Extreme was given the chance to take a look at the K7, AMD's Slot A-based CPU,behind closed doors. The K7 was running at 500MHz and performing a series of Winstone98 tests. AMD purposefully left out benchmark results, however, judging from several tests we've run with Intel Pentium II 400MHz and 450MHz CPUs, the K7 seemed faster. All tests were run on a 100MHz FSB motherboard and not the final 200MHz which the K7 will run at. DDR SDRAM or RDRAM will be used on these 200MHz EV6 compatible boards when they become available. And speaking of availability... High AMD sources gave Sharky Extreme the following timetable for K7 production (all dates subject to change): July 1999: .25 micron 500MHz K7 debuts in very limited quantities and marketed solely to high-end servers. Pitched as a Xeon competitor, the .25 micron K7 will be very expensive. Speculative prices fall somewhere around $800+ depending upon L2 cache options. October 1999: .18 die shrink occurs, allowing much higher margin rates for the K7, driving prices down and making the K7 a mainstream Katmai competitor. The K7's specifications break down as follows: Nine-issue superscalar architecture Superscalar pipelined FPU 128KB of L1 cache Programmable backside L2 cache up to 8MB 200MHz Alpha EV6 compatible system bus AMD has no plans to introduce any "3DNow! 2" or revamp their current multimedia instructions. They feel that 3DNow! is strong enough to compete with Intel's upcoming KNI (or MMX2) instruction set. C o m d e x : A M D K 6 - 3 S h a r p t o o t h Posted by Amer "Mossad" Ajami : November 20th AMD was displaying the K6-3 Sharptooth, their answer to Intel's Celeron A, in both 400MHz desktop and 300MHz portable versions. The desktop K6-3 comes with 256kb of full speed integrated L2 cache. Early test results place the 400MHz K6-3 at about the same performance level as an Intel Pentium II 350MHz when the former is running 3D applications without 3DNow! support, and a Pentium II 400MHz when it is. The mobile K6-3 300MHz operates at 11 watts, about 2 watts more than the portable Pentium II 400MHz model, and produces more heat as well. Although still unofficial and unannounced, AMD told us that 400MHz or 450MHz desktop variants of the K6-3 should be in mass production by February of 1999 and cost between $280 and $300.