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To: Petz who wrote (43838)	12/22/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573682

Petz, Those K6-3 benchmarks sure do look great. The Intellafoons were bitching about benchmarks and the Katmai sure looks terrible. And your estimates on performance were pretty close by the way. PS. Did anyone verify if the new K6-2 core is really a K6-3 with cache disabled as was rumoured a few weeks back. If that was the case then chances for 400Mhz K6-3's in Q1 look pretty good IMHO. As far as fab. capacity, I think rest of fab.25 is being equipped for 0.18 micron. They will have 0.18 with AL interconnect running K6-3 in Fab 25 and 0.18 with Cu running K7 in Dresden. If they can execute in Dresden then 750-800Mhz K7's might be realistic by year end. Should be a rocking 99 for AMD. All ze best, Kash

To: Petz who wrote (43838)	12/22/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573682

Re: "What I meant was that Fab 25 has clean room space for 4000-5000 wafers per week, but the last I heard it was at no more than 3,000 wafers per week. " OK so you misspoke, no big deal. It happens to everyone. Re: "Any fool knows that they don't have extra equipment sitting there in mothballs and that it takes time to expand capactiy to the theoretical maximum (5000)." So when you said "AMD has far more wafer capacity than they are using now" you meant they DON'T have "far more wafer capacity than they are using now". Like I said, no big deal. EP