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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51273)	2/28/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Announce K7 Clock K7 Mhz Announce K6-3 Clock K6-3 Mhz RDM 25-May 550 14-Feb 450 John Petzinger 20-Jul 600 22-Feb 450 kash johal 21-Jun 600 15-Feb 450 Kevin K. Spurway 30-Jun 600 24-Feb 450 Cirruslvr 23-Jun 600 15-Feb 450 MickeyB 25-Jun 600 19-Mar 450 Jim McMannis 24-May 550 22-Feb 450 Yougang Xiao 1-May I guess the K6-3 was officially Feb 22. Winners are Petzinger & McMannis. And also perhaps the computer buying public.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51273)	2/28/1999 9:02:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Re: "Still think the K7 is foil? " No, I realize it exists. However when Intel makes a public demonstration of a 1Ghz PIII, regardless of whether or not it ran the FPU, I find it humorous that AMD has NEVER demonstrated ANY PROCESSOR of any kind running at even 1/2 that speed. I think it's because they can't. Even with liquid nitrogen they can't get a K7 stable enough to show at even 500Mhz, or 400Mhz for that matter. There are no leaks from OEMs about samples. Based on industry norms, this is not what one would expect for a processor that is near production. In fact, again based on what one would expect inside the industry, this is a product that is a long way from being ready. Someday this may be a great chip, but the signals aren't there. Intel didn't demo a 1Ghz foil, they showed real silicon in front of a real audience comprised of anyone who wanted to pay the price of admission. AMD hasn't ever shown anything except a K7 running Godzilla at unknown speed to a hand picked group of AMD faithful. My CeleronA can do that. Could I be wrong? Sure, but consider that I might very well be right. EP

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (51273)	2/28/1999 9:18:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

<Besides, there were motherboards and chipsets to make or do you think you can run a CPU in mid air?> But still, how come we haven't heard a peep about chipset designs yet? Everyone's oohing and ahhing about that 200 MHz bus, but what I want to know is what sort of memory system AMD is planning on using before RDRAM, how many AGP and/or PCI buses the chipset can support, how a multiprocessor system looks, etc., etc. Come on, AMD. We've seen the K7 foils, now how about some chipset foils as well? Tenchusatsu