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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scumbria who wrote (52155)	3/9/1999 5:06:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571697

I guess I said it wrong. People were telling me how the "clean" RISC architecture of PowerPC was going to make the x86 baggage look like a millstone tied around Intel's neck. One guy even speculated that the PowerPC can emulate the x86 architecture just as fast as any x86 processor can do it natively. I told them, "I'll believe it when I see it." Now you're telling me that a 600 MHz K7 is just around the corner, even though AMD can barely crank out 450 MHz K6-2 parts by the hundreds. I don't care about "short tick" architecture; even the Pentium Pro was released at clock speeds not much faster than the fastest Pentium out at the time. I expect the K7 to debut at 500 MHz if AMD wants to stick to a Q2 release date. When I see a 600 MHz K7 being produced in volume on a 0.25 micron process, then I'll believe it. Until then, I don't think Intel should worry all that much about the K7 until AMD gets their 0.18 micron process up and running. That, in my opinion, is AMD's best (perhaps last?) chance to land a good punch on Intel's mug. Tenchusatsu