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To: Paul Engel who wrote (46748)	1/20/1999 3:53:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572359

Re: "Speculate all you want - you just admitted you haven't a clue concerning the relative performance of the K7 and the Pentium III." Since the K6-3 will generally outperform the PIII, I think it's pretty safe to speculate that the K7 will outperform them both. Otherwise, what would be the point? The question is, buy HOW MUCH will it outperform, and can AMD produce it COST EFFECTIVELY and in SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH VOLUME before Intel's .18u offerings start appearing. Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (46748)	1/20/1999 3:59:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572359

Paul, Speculate all you want - you just admitted you haven't a clue concerning the relative performance of the K7 and the Pentium III. Based on the 128K L1 cache alone, I feel quite confident speculating that K7 will be faster than any Intel offerings (at the same clock speed.) K7 clearly has a lot of useless baggage which impacts die size, but they seem to have made a good effort to deal with the fundamentals of performance- i.e. clock speed and cache size. Scumbria