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To: Saturn V who wrote (69271)	12/2/1998 12:35:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn V, Designing systems with signals faster than 100Mhz is no cake walk. Isn't Intel planning on shipping DRDRAM systems with 800MHz data lines next year? Are you suggesting that Intel will have great difficulty doing this? Scumbria

To: Saturn V who wrote (69271)	12/2/1998 1:39:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Saturn, RE:"During the next year, I do not see the K-7 taking a significant part of the server market from Xeon. 1) Servers demand high speed and large cache memory, and integer based computing . At 100Mhz Main memory and 200MHz L2 cache, K-7 has little attraction. 2) Server manufacturers are very conservative. They require extensive qualification cycles. Xeon is finally made being accepted in this gruelling segment. K-7 will only be used as a bargaining lever with Intel, and you are not going to see significant volumes. However K-7 will find a more receptive audience for Workstations.K-7 should do well on those benchmarks which are floating point intensive, and do not need large and fast cache memory.The Workstation market is less demanding than the server market in terms of qualification and reliability requirements. However if workstation software can be optimized or re-compiled for Katmai, then the K-7 will be be completely checkmated." --------------- K7 may or may not take significant market share from Xeon but do not lose sight of this.... 1. AMD has NO share of the server market now. Any at all is a significant occurance....especially when you come from 0. 2. What Intel loses on margins selling Celerons they have been able to make up with Pentium IIs and high priced Xeons. Server makers will lick their chops at using the threat of the K7 against the Xeon and some will actually use the K7 in servers as well. As far as using the K7 in servers vs workstations. AMD has plans for K7 versions optimized for both....The K7 because of it's design is a very modifiable chip. Jim