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To: Elmer who wrote (50657)	2/23/1999 1:35:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572758

PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 23, 1999--Intel Corporation today broke the 1 GHz speed barrier for a general purpose microprocessor. This was the first time the gigahertz (one billion cycles per second) frequency has been achieved on a standard microprocessor. The technology demonstration, using a 0.25 micron Pentium® III processor, was shown to an audience of over 1500 industry software and hardware developers attending the Intel Developer Forum. biz.yahoo.com At the same time AMD has been too frightened to show the K7 in public to anybody!!! Intel does it's demonstrations in front of an audience of 1500 developers!! EP