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To: Scumbria who wrote (56508)	4/26/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571936

<I don't think that very many people really care about performance. The key is MHz, and there seems to be a reasonable chance that K7 will scale up in MHz very quickly.> So the key to the K7 success rests on two things then: 1) The starting frequency of the K7 (500 MHz will be a disappointment) 2) The hope that K7 will exceed Pentium III frequency before late 2000, even when faced with a less mature 0.18 micron process and a poor history of execution And all this talk about 9-issue execution units, deeper buffers, a maximum of 8 MB of L2 cache, a 200 MHz processor bus, and an oversized 128K L1 cache is all for naught then if the K7 merely achieves performance parity with an equivalently-clocked Pentium III. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (56508)	4/26/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 1571936

re:"there seems to be a reasonable chance that K7 will scale up in MHz very quickly." It is not a chance, it is a likelihood. Regards, DARBES