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To: Paul Engel who wrote (50495)	2/22/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573116

Paul, "Jimbo McMannis gave us a "heads-up" on this 2.4 Volt requirement which he got from his Triple Secret Walter's AMD Pwivate Thwead !" I thought you read the private thread? The 2.4v information was widely known. Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (50495)	2/22/1999 7:42:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 1573116

Paul - RE: 2.4 Volt I was wondering how you would react to the chip being officially released and this - amd.com. Now we know. I guess you can't handle the fact that Intel's yet unreleased processor is being shown to be slower than the K6-III. Slower, Paul. Intel's chip is slower. The customer will see these benchmarks. All customers may not change their mind, but a good proportion of them will, and they will purchase K6-III systems, whenever they become widely available. Joe Consumer doesn't care about how much voltage is required to run the K6-3 in their PC. As Jim said, this is better for AMD because now they will probably get higher yields. As far as the notebook version of the K6-3, Jim says it exists. It will be here next Q. AMD will be able to sell them. My guess is they will run at 2.0 volts, or with about 10% more voltage than required to run the notebook K6-2 chip. Again, it was interesting to see your reaction to all the buzz today, including this amd.com. The K6-III is faster than the PIII w/only 512K L3 cache. Intel is slower.