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To: Paul Engel who wrote (49784)	2/16/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570837

RE:"He said the K7 was going into production in January of this year as I recall." --- I don't recall saying specifically that but I recall something about Dresden having first Silicon already and Austin as well. I did say that the K7 is due to ship first week of June with a May announcement...but like a long putt, there is a lot of green between now and then. I also said weeks ago that the K6-3-400 would ship in the first week of March and the K6-3-450 about 3 weeks later. Let's see how accurate all this is. Yeah, I know I expected the K6-3 around the first of the year but we were blindsided by the production problem. Did't even show up in the volume... As far as .28. I could have revised downward because of low ASPs but no one would have believed it. 5.5M chips was a lot for only .15.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (49784)	2/16/1999 8:28:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570837

Paul, have you seen any OEM's announce that they ARE IMPRESSED with the K7 Suppose that an OEM announced that they liked K7, and suppose that Intel decided that they didn't want to sell so many Xeons to that OEM, and suppose that Intel decided that they should charge that OEM more money for the Xeons that they did sell them. Of course, nothing like that would ever happen in the real world, because Intel is a very ethical company. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (49784)	2/16/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570837

Paul - RE: "I try not to [post hypocritical statements]..." Magic word try. RE: "That's right - have you seen any OEM's announce that they ARE IMPRESSED with the K7?" I am assuming you got your info through sources. How many OEMs publically announce they are impressed with unreleased processors? None, except for with the Merced probably. But I don't think you want to talk about Merced, do you? (http://www.theregister.co.uk/index.html) RE: "June release? Show me an AMD announcement of a June K7 release. And don't be hypocritical." If you can recall, Jerry said the K7 would be released/introduced in Q2 at the Q4 CC. He also said the K7 is sampling this month [Jan.] on demo boards based on the Irongate chipset.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (49784)	2/16/1999 10:06:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570837

Paul - R: "June release? Show me an AMD announcement of a June K7 release. And don't be hypocritical." ______________________________________________________________________ AMD DISCLOSES NEXT-GENERATION AMD-K7(TM) PROCESSOR MICROARCHITECTURE AT MICROPROCESSOR FORUM --Microprocessor Forum AMD-K7 (TM)Technology Presentation-- SUNNYVALE, CA--OCTOBER 13, 1998--AMD today disclosed design and technology details of its forthcoming AMD-K7(TM) microprocessor, the leading-edge, seventh-generation successor to the AMD-K6® processor family. "We are excited to give the industry a first look at our seventh-generation processor. The all-new AMD-K7 design features a number of compelling technological breakthroughs, including the industry's first mainstream 200 MHz system bus and the most architecturally advanced floating point capability ever delivered in an x86 microprocessor," said S. Atiq Raza, AMD executive vice president and chief technical officer. The Microsoft® Windows® compatible AMD-K7(TM) processor with 3DNow!(TM) technology offers seventh-generation design features that distinguish it from previous generations of PC processors. These innovations include a nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency, a superscalar pipelined floating point unit, 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache, a programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface, and a 200 MHz Alpha EV6-compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing. The AMD-K7 processor is expected to be available in the first half of 1999 and is planned to operate at clock frequencies faster than 500 MHz, based on AMD's 0.25-micron process technology. The AMD-K7 processor will leverage existing physical and mechanical PC infrastructure. The AMD-K7 microarchitecture was disclosed at the eleventh annual Microprocessor Forum by Dirk Meyer, director of engineering for the AMD-K7 design team, based in Austin, Texas. Held each year at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, Microprocessor Forum is the microprocessor industry's most prestigious technical gathering. amd.com ______________________________________________________________________ June is the least optimistic expected release date in Q2.