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To: Elmer who wrote (46306)1/16/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571612
 
Elmer,

PIII, PII, Celeron, Xeon, and Pentium Pro all share the same fundamental core architecture. The clock speed ramp of this product line is limited by the architectural features.

K7 offers AMD the opportunity to move beyond the fundamental clock speed limitations of the K6 architecture. Intel does not appear to have anything analogous in the works for 1999.

Scumbria



To: Elmer who wrote (46306)1/16/1999 1:57:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1571612
 
Re: "You think Intel is going to waste any further resources on the PII? Did AMD sink anymore into the K6 when the K6-2 was about to come out?"

I think what he's saying is that the PII and the PIII architecture are pretty much the same.

Kevin



To: Elmer who wrote (46306)1/17/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson  Respond to of 1571612
 
Elmer , the K6 is the same core as the K6-2
so its clock speed improvement is very limited unless a transition to a smaller process takes place . The same thing applies to the PII core. That is why K7 is so important to AMD it runs faster than 500 mhz on its initial demonstration which was produced on .25 .
Brian


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