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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (46566)	1/18/1999 6:28:00 PM
From: MikeyB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572807

"So to make a couple hundred fifty thousand chips for release they would need about 10,000 wafers to be started at least 10 (2.5 months) weeks before introduction." I don't think that they'd start all 10000 wafers at once. They need to keep the K6 pipeline running also. It'd be less risky to only start ~25lots/wk now for late q2 intro. That way any fixes that are required affect fewer lots. Also this could mean that K7 initial production would not significantly impact K6 production.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (46566)	1/18/1999 6:29:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572807

Tom's Pentium 3 Blurb Intellabees should find at least one good out of this article, but they will also see something they don't want to: ______________________________________________________________________ Finally the word is out now, and I have to say that it makes me happy to see that nobody less than my friend Dennis 'Thresh' Fong was the one to publish the first real Pentium-III-numbers on the Internet. This gets me out of a difficult situation, since I am only bound to a NDA as long as the subject of that NDA is not public knowledge. Now Pentium III performance is public knowledge and I can talk about it too. Thanks Dennis! After you read the Pentium III article at Thresh's FiringSquad, I'd like to add my own comments. I see the story around Pentium III a bit different. This new Intel CPU is not offering any noticeable improvement over Pentium II in any of today's software, it has only got the advantage of its new clock speed of 500 MHz. Game developers state that software, which uses the new 'streaming SIMD instructions', is showing a performance improvement of 10-15 %, which is not exactly a lot. We should also not forget that this software may not run faster on Pentium III CPUs, but only offer some nice visual enhancements instead. I am e.g. thinking of four shadows instead of one shadow as in case of Rage's Expendable. To cut a long story (which you will get in form of my very own Pentium III-review) short, the Pentium III release reminds me big time of the Pentium II release. Pentium II did also not show more of a real world enhancement over Pentium Pro than a higher clock speed and MMX. Can you still remember what MMX was good for? Maybe you can understand now, why I am saying that there's nothing exciting happening in the PC-hardware business currently. Pentium III is certainly not an overly exiting product and I wonder if a few fancy 3D games will be enough to push the sales of that CPU once it's out on February 26. One little note to Dennis' comment about the heat of Pentium III: The core voltage of Pentium III is 1.8 V, not 2V and many boards can not supply this new lower voltage, including the oh-so-wonderful BH6 from Abit (although it claims it does in the SoftMenu2). Thus Pentium III ran at 11% too high voltage already, which explains its high temperature, and running it at 2.2V for overclocking means an 'over-voltage' of no less than 0.4 V! " www5.tomshardware.com _____________________________________________________________________ 1.8 volts is impressive, but 10-15% improvement isn't. Maybe KNI won't offer the improvements possibilities that 3D NOW! offers because its (PIII) FPU is already powerful. I would hope Intel has more than "a few fancy 3D games" on the release date. They don't want to pull an AMD, which is about 1/70 the size of Intel, and only have a few products that support thir new instructions, do they?