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To: AJ Berger who wrote (43128)	12/10/1998 11:28:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572505

Re: "K7-500mhz for the notebook market" I can't imagine there'd be a notebook K7 until at least 2000.

To: AJ Berger who wrote (43128)	12/10/1998 11:55:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572505

Oh, thank you for additional re-hashing of old news. What a great service to AMD investor community! Keep going. Your thought about K7 notebooks is also truly remarkable for a "Information Technology Manager". Just as another old tidbits FYI: realworldtech.com ---- quote begins: News for 12/7/98 AMD released some information for retailers on Monday, which we will sum up here: - 10 Million K6 processors have been shipped to date. - K6 family processors currently own 43.8% of the retail market vs. 44.2% for the PII and Celeron. - K6 family processors currently own 54.3% of the sub-$1000 retail market - 6 of the top 10 OEMs produce K6-2 based desktop systems. - 2 of the top 4 OEMs produce k6-2 based mobile systems. AMD provided a roadmap for the K6-2, K6-3 and K7 processors - most of which is a little out of date (it shows the Sharptooth coming out in 2H '98). One interesting item is the .18 micron K7 for 2H '99 at 600MHz+ speeds. They alsoclaim to be on-track with their K7 development, though it has slipped just a bit to Feb. '99. The roadmap also shows the positioning of the various processors: K6-2 vs. Celeron, K6-2 vs. Pentium II, Sharptooth vs. Katmai and K7 vs. Williamette. This clearly shows that AMD believes that they can compete heat-to-head with Intel even at the very high-end with their K7. The presentation also showed some interesting comparisions between 3DNow! and KNI. Both are shown with a peak FP performance of 2GFLOPs at 500MHz. In addition, the chart shows both instruction sets include SIMD, 4 FP operations/clock, use flat registers (vs. x87 stacked regs), allow for data prefetching and are mixable with MMX instructions. AMD also claims to have some advantages over KNI including: Functional in existing OS's, supported by DirectX 6.0 and several current titles, significantly lower price and an established base. This presentation noted that while 3DNow! is available now even on the low-end systems, KNI will come 6 months later and even then only on the highest priced systems. --------- quote ends