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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57006)	5/2/1999 4:07:00 PM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 1573718

re: "AMD says very little and is apparently trying to be a secretive as they can." Just think about this statement. Is not it a very welcome and dramatic change from their very recent past? Regards, DARBES

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57006)	5/2/1999 6:47:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573718

<All the hype just comes from people trying to figure out how fast the K7 will be. AMD says very little and is apparently trying to be a secretive as they can.> WHAT?!? AMD has said time and time again that the K7 is a "seventh-generation" processor. That implies that the K7 can blow away any sixth-generation processor like the Pentium III. They're even going as far as hinting that Intel will need Willamette in order to stay competitive. Yet AMD isn't giving any specifics on what "seventh-generation" performance we can expect, which leaves a ton of room for speculation. Thanks to those wonderful sounding K7 foils, people are expecting the unattainable. One guy even expects the K7 to beat the Pentium III by 40%. Uh huh. Also, remember Jim, the YUK Register isn't the only web site which hinted at less-than-stellar K7 performance. AnandTech also said the K7 is "as fast as" a Pentium III, whatever that means. (Of course, Anand can't give any specifics, or else he might get another phone call from AMD, just like the one he got when he published K6-III scores months before its release.) And Sharky Extreme has printed some rumors where OEM's considered the K7 performance to be disappointing. Just like all the stuff that brewed about Clinton and his booty-calls before the Monica story broke out, where there's enough smoke, there's bound to be a fire. Of course, I'll be the first to eat my words if the real K7 proves to be the speed demon that AMD is making it out to be. Tenchusatsu