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To: kash johal who wrote (50358)	2/21/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580838

<Perhaps you could also enlighten us on what AMD will be doing with the parts that fail to meet the 400/450 Mhz speed grades but are still functional???> Funny you should ask that, Kash. I was wondering the same thing myself. What does happen to the K6-3 CPUs that fail to run at 400 MHz or faster? Four possibilities come to mind: 1) Drop the K6-3 in a mobile computer at lower speeds and voltages. This is a good possibility, although I doubt that even the K6-3 will be well-suited for the mobile market without specifically designed for the mobile market. 2) Sell the K6-3 at a slower speed than 400 MHz. But it doesn't seem that AMD is willing to sell the K6-3 at any speed slower than 400 MHz. 3) Disable the on-die L2 cache and sell it as a K6-2. That seems like an awful waste of silicon, especially 256K of it. 4) Toss out the K6-3 that don't make 400 MHz or more. That's an even worse waste of silicon. Tenchusatsu