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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (44724)	1/4/1999 2:07:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572776

<Katmai instructions won't be enough to counter the raw FPU power of the K7...> Sure about this? Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (44724)	1/4/1999 1:02:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572776

Jim - Re: " Then what happens when the K7 smokes the Pentium III which doesn't have 3DNOW....? : It won't. It may be competitive, but the only thing it will smoke is Motherboards and Power Supplies. Remember - The K7 is coming out on a 0.25 micron process - and is STILL 5 or 6 months away and NO PC MAKERS HAVE ENDORSED IT. And the K7 is Huge, Jim - HUGE - 187 sq. MM - bigger than the original 0.35 micron K6 ! ANd you know how well that yielded - don't you, Jim? Don't you? Intel's Pentium III/Katmai (0.25 micron) will be transitioned to Coppermine - 0,18 micron with at least 256 K L2 ON-CHIP cache - maybe lots more ! At 0.18 micron with on-chip L2 cache, Intel's Coppermine will be faster than the K7 with its EXPENSIVE, 1/3 CPU speed off-chip L2 cache. And guess what, Jimmy? Yep - you guessed it ! The Coppermine - and the Katmai as well - slide RIGHT INTO EXISTING MOTHERBOARDS THAT ARE MADE TODAY ! As well as the new motherboards with RAMBUS and 133 MHz FSB that are coming out in a few months ! But the K7 will require all new chip sets, all new designs and all new motherboards and all new BIOSes and all new engineering and all new fabrication and all new system check out and all new verification. The K7 may have TOUGH RAOD to acceptance, Jim ! I'd think long and hard about that ! (And don't assume the K7 is going to plug into a $1500 Compaq Alpha Motherboard - WAY TOO EXPENSIVE - even if it worked ! Which it won't!) Paul