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To: Joey Smith who wrote (44777)	1/4/1999 5:29:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572921

Joey - Re: " K7 could be the most hyped and BIGGEST FLOP of 1999! " My sense is that AMD will "re-target" the K7 for the Performance Gaming consumer, and market it as a "high end desktop" CPU selling for $175 to $225. If not, they will have trouble attracting customers. And a real problem point - the Sharp-Eye chip, with on-chip L2 cache - may OUTPERFORM the K7. One other possibility: When AMD realized their K5 was DOG (I mean a DOG !), they held it back for "further testing". In reality, they had to SHRINK it from the 0.5 micron process to a hastily developed 0.35 micron process in order to get the speed beyond 75 MHz. Thus, the K7 "may be delayed for further testing" as AMD shrinks it to the -yet-to-be-developed 0.18 micron process. Paul