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To: Paul Engel who wrote (44747)	1/4/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572877

Paul - RE: " NO PC MAKERS HAVE ENDORSED IT [the K7]" Maybe not officially... ______________________________________________________________________ AMD on verge of further K7 desktop wins The Digital Anvil, AMD and Microsoft connection is to deliver further desktops using the K7 platform in Q3 1999, we can reveal. The source that told The Register last week of the copper interconnect K7 in Y2K with a 400MHz bus, today revealed it has several other customers interested in its products. He said: "I don't think [the Compaq Presario with K7] will be an exclusive. We have other customer wins too." AMD is pitching its PC OEMs with a joint Digital Anvil convergent technology, but he refused to be drawn on whether Microsoft was involved in the equation. He said Digital Anvil will not exclusively work with AMD. "The market is too small for that and companies like DA depend on volume, he added." That means that small company Digital Anvil is being wooed by two of the biggest x.86 based companies in the world. We understand other platforms are interested in its technology as well. ® theregister.co.uk ______________________________________________________________________ I tell it like it is, you tell it like it was.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (44747)	1/4/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572877

Paul, RE:" 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?"... ---- And how big is the Katmai? .25 isn't the best for the size of the K7. Dresden will start at .22... ---- The rest of your points are well taken. We know well how much AMD has to pull together to get the K7 up and running. AMD will have it's own chips set followed by VIA and Ali. Compaq will be the first in line for the K7. Write it down... Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (44747)	1/4/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572877

re: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. The fact that no OEMs (not even CPQ) have commented on K7 (less than 6 months before its proposed introduction) is a very bad omen, since it requires new motherboards, chipsets, etc. K7 could be the most hyped and BIGGEST FLOP of 1999! joey