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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Buckwheat who wrote (43707)	12/21/1998 4:07:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572859

<You absolutely right Joey, it's too bad that the K6-3 does not support KNI. It's also too bad that nothing else currently supports KNI either.> Yeah, and it's also too bad that no one can currently get their hands on one of these bad-boy K6-3 chips. I don't know if anyone was doubting that the K6-3 can beat a Pentium II clock-for-clock. I'll even bet that the K6-3 can beat the Dixon clock-for-clock, but that's sort of an invalid comparison since the Dixon won't be released at clock speeds greater than 366 MHz anyway. I am surprised, however, that the K6-3 400 MHz beats a Pentium II 450 MHz, even in Winstone 99 under Windows NT. (Yes, I will eat my words from before.) That should be an excellent selling point for the K6-3, allowing AMD to charge some premium prices on the chip. However, those Quake II benchmark scores were much less impressive, showing the K6-3 at 450 MHz barely beating a Pentium II 450 MHz, even with those 3D-Now instructions. And Quake II is the best-case scenario for games which support 3D-Now. Now there are only two questions remaining for Q1 1999. First, how is AMD going to market the K6-3? They better be concerned about a potential marketing blitz from Intel hyping up Katmai and Tanner's so-called MMX2. This will probably steal the thunder from the K6-3, as Intel marketing diverts attention away from boring office application benchmarks and toward 3-D, speech recognition, DVD, and other new "cool" technologies. The chance to market 3D-Now has already passed, except for maybe a little "Well, we have a headstart" blurb. Second, how many K6-3's can AMD churn out per quarter? I sure don't see too many 400 MHz K6-2 parts out there at the moment. Even if AMD were to leave the sub-$1000 market to Celeron and Cyrix and go for higher-margin territory with the K6-3, could they even make enough to satisfy the demand? It's not very apparent to me that AMD can increase their production well beyond five million units per quarter in 1999. It's also not very apparent to me that a huge portion of that output will be K6-3's, especially at those low-yielding 400 MHz and 450 MHz clock speeds. Tenchusatsu