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To: Petz who wrote (46579)	1/18/1999 7:18:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573081

Petz, AMD dosn't need to worry about the PIII. In fact the PIII is a psoitive to AMD as AMD can position the k6-2/3 as having the 3d instructions just like the PIII. The keys are the speed ramps and the k-3 volume and speed ramps. A 400/450 duo of k-3 will do wonders for AMD. If they can only do 350/400 for k-3 we will still be behind but numbers should still be good for this quarter as long as they can ship enogh 400 and 450 k-3's. Regards, Kash

To: Petz who wrote (46579)	1/18/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573081

<Pentium III won't be reaching 600 MHz anytime soon. Based on the overclocking performance at firingsquad.com, they had to push the Vcc 22% over spec to get it to run at 600 MHz. That would be like running the K6-2 at 2.69 volts.> No, I meant that if Intel really wanted to, they could pour tons of effort into reaching 600 MHz for 0.25 micron. This would have made sense if Intel's 0.18 micron transition is delayed for some reason. OK, maybe it isn't as easy as I originally made it sound, but it sure is possible. But since the 0.18 micron process is just around the next corner, I would guess that it makes much more sense just to wait until then before moving the bar up to 600 MHz. By the way, do you think that the K7 can actually reach 600 MHz on a 0.25 micron process, or do you think that AMD will just stay with a 500 MHz introduction? Tenchusatsu