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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42768)	12/4/1998 3:02:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1572661

Ten, Tom has been in love with Intel for quite a while. It just seems he is intrigued with the K7. Apparently it has made a lasting impression on him. These Testers are going to get their hands on the latest chips...one way or another....They are going to overclock them. AMD might as well send them a cherry picked chip... On the other hand...if they were unbiased tests, the testers would get a sampling of chips from the wholesale/retail channel. Unfortunately, this would put them behind other testers would would get their results published first using engineering samples or hand picked chips sent by the manufacturers. Jim

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42768)	12/4/1998 4:19:00 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572661

Tenchusatsu Re:<Look at Tom, who absolutely nuts over the K7. You don't think this happened without AMD actively seducing him, do you? > Tom's been a little biased against INTC since he thought they had a contract out on him!(IMHO) tgptndr

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (42768)	12/4/1998 11:49:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572661

Tenchusatsu: <<Cynically speaking, maybe AMD doesn't have a "better" K6-2 400?>> Winstone 98 benchmark of the K6-2-400Mhz speaks for itself. It is a strong performer against the PII-400MHz. It was all designed around a socket 7 which Intel thought had no room for growth. Guess AMD showed them that they were wrong. Not only that Intel will for the first time copy AMD idea of 3DNOW and calling it KNI. <<Look at Tom, who absolutely nuts over the K7. You don't think this happened without AMD actively seducing him, do you?>> Are you kidding me? Just looking at the architecture is already enticing. It looks very much like the Alpha 21264. The K7 is a dream X87 engine. The design speaks for itself. I study the PII in details and is basically a K6 architecture level design. The only thing that is different over the K6 is the heavy stage level of pipeline of PII. However the K6 has better decoder. AMD will close out this year 50MHz behind Intel. By next year K7 will give Intel a run for their money both on MHz and whatever Intel throws out. The K7 will be crowned as the world fastest X87 CPU and AMD stock will be well rewarded if AMD can deliver the volume as promised. Maxwell