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To: DRBES who wrote (50506)	2/22/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573219

Re: "What really makes me feel good is how hard these .... iNTEL guys are working to make this K-6 III , that completely blows away the pIII" Good point. If you look at the benchmarks on AMD's site, you can see that AMD didn't even feel the need to use a (more commonly available) board with 1 meg L2 cache in their benchmarks--the K6-III with only 512k L3 still blew away the PIII clock for clock. Kevin

To: DRBES who wrote (50506)	2/22/1999 5:11:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573219

It's the same butt-slapping they were giving each other when the K6-233 came out in 3.2v and 3.3v versions. Haven't heard of any failures with those units. Still, as a non-process type, I'm still curious why AMD needed 2.4 volts. Process technology wouldn't seem to fit would it? The same core runs 2.2v at 400MHZ in a K6-2 unless 2.4v yields more chips w/256k L2 vs having to down binn or disable the cache and make K6-2+s. Could Kevin be right about needing more voltage for the extra transistors? I felt good when the Intelabees were scared to death of the K6-III and were trashing it. At 2.4v I'm not feeling quite as good. This could eliminate a lot of motherboards. At any rate, AMD was up big today, even though I'm not currently long. Jim