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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (56052)	4/22/1999 4:11:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570862

<Take a Pentium II and add some new instructions and tweaks and that's a RAMP?> Take a K6-2, add an on-die cache, and that's a ramp? (No, that cache shouldn't hurt yields all that much thanks to redundancy. But then again, this is AMD we're talking about.) Funny how AMD is slower on this ramp than Intel is on the Pentium III ramp. Funny how AMD is also slower on this ramp than Intel was on the Mendocino Celeron ramp. Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (56052)	4/23/1999 2:17:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570862

Clueless Jimbo - Re: "Take a Pentium II and add some new instructions and tweaks and that's a RAMP? Shouldn't be a big deal for Intel. Same 'ole core. " Add 256 K L2 cache to the CPU and you have a Coppermine on a 0.18 micron process running at 600+ MHz. New core/old core - choose your weapon. Since Intel's "old core" wasn't broken, they didn't have to "fix it". Unlike another CPU maker we all know whose "old core" simply ran out of steam. Paul