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To: Elmer who wrote (54183)	4/4/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580439

Elmer - Re: "AMD: The K7 will move AMD into the high-end of the PC space. The K7 is designed to deliver performance that is superior to the PIII." This looks like still more backpeddling by AMD. They refuse to compare the K7 performance to Coppermine or even Xeon when confronted with a direct question." Once again, you have spotted the glaring admission that AMD is forced to make - that the Kmart 7 will be a high end Kmart 63, hopefully with a zippier FPU. But confined to the competitive desktop arena. Imagine AMD trying to peddle a 184 sq. mm. Kmart 7 chip up against a 122 sq. mm Pentium III chip (BOTH 0.25 micron processes). I would guess that the expression SIGNIFICANT LOSSES may be uttered by Sanders again and again ! Re: " What happened to the claim of fastest x86 in the universe?" I guess the "universe" is expanding faster than AMD's speed ramp ! Look for Intel's Coppermine to enter the world at a speed of 601 MHz - MINIMUM - plus it will be innately faster than the Kmart 7 since the Coppermine will have a FULL SPEED 256K L2 cache and the chip size will be SMALLER than the Pentium III - due to the 0.18 micron process. Paul