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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (52026)	3/9/1999 1:08:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571678

Cringe - Re: "There is a difference between what I wrote and what The Register wrote. Ditto for references. This should help clear things up with you. Have those DELAYS inhibited your ability to notice that?" Not at all. Perhaps the AMD LOSSES have impaired your abilities ? Why don't you tell us about the K63 delay - since DELAYED PROGRAMS are so near and dear to your empty wallet ! Have you tried to buy a K63 lately? What about a K63 PC? Now you know ! Paul

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (52026)	3/9/1999 1:12:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571678

Cringe & AMD Investors - AMD provides HIGH POWER Notebook solutions ! Don't worry - AMD has determined that HIGH POWER dissipation is OK ! Oh, yeah ! AMD's new mobile MPUs trade power for speed “The thermal envelope can be safely increased from 11 watts to 16 watts with very little degradation,” Krelle said. “OEMs have developed very good power management in these machines.” Paul...who love AMD's High Power Technology Innovations ! {============================} AMD's new mobile MPUs trade power for speed By Mark Hachman, Electronic Buyers' News Mar 8, 1999 (5:33 PM) URL: ebnews.com Betting that OEMs will sacrifice low power consumption for a faster clock speed, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is rolling out the latest version of its mobile K6-2 microprocessor. “We've developed a new family of mobile microprocessors based upon a new trend in the marketplace,” said Dana Krelle, vice president of marketing for AMD, Sunnyvale, Calif. That trend, Krelle continued, relates to the notebook PC housing, or enclosure, which is being designed to accommodate increasingly powerful CPUs capable of burning 16 watts or more. At least one OEM, Compaq Computer Corp., has been sold on the idea, developing new Presario notebooks around AMD's newest 380-, 366-, and 350-MHz K6-2 processors. The new chips are virtually identical to their older K6-2 counterparts, save for the fact that they consume about 12 W, as opposed to AMD's older mobile K6-2 processors, which use 9 to 11 W of power. The new K6-2 chips also operate on a 2.2-V core voltage. In its own tests, AMD found that the higher power consumption produced little degradation in the battery life of a PC. The running time of a notebook computer using a 380-MHz K6-2, for example, was reduced by 12 minutes to 2 hours and 40 minutes. “The thermal envelope can be safely increased from 11 watts to 16 watts with very little degradation,” Krelle said. “OEMs have developed very good power management in these machines.” To distinguish the new chips from the older versions, AMD has added a “P” suffix reminiscent of the Performance Enhanced (PE) label Intel Corp. attached to its higher performance Dixon microprocessors. But OEMs looking for an AMD “P-grade” processor that matches the Dixon's integrated level 2 cache will have to wait for AMD's K6-III P, to be released in the second quarter, according to Krelle. Compared to rival AMD chips, Intel has set more conservative power consumption limits for its microprocessors, according to the Intel Mobile Power Guidelines '00, which were published last December.For the next two years, Intel has allotted a 9.5-W power budget for its CPUs while they are rendering 3D graphics, according to the document. That recommendation supersedes an earlier 1999 goal of 7.9 W, which Intel established last year. As with its K6 processors for the desktop PC, AMD's mobile chips are designed to interface to third-party chipsets from Via Technologies Inc. and Acer Labs Inc. The 380-, 366-, and 350-MHz chips must be paired with core logic chipsets generating respective 95-, 66-, and 100-MHz microprocessor bus speeds. AMD's new chips have been priced between the older mobile K6-2 microprocessors and their desktop counterparts, Krelle said. In 1,000-unit lots, the 380-, 366-, and 350-MHz chips are $169, $149, and $119, respectively.