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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (57077)	5/3/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1573824

Tenchusatsu - Re: " The story has changed to "Wait until K7 really gets going." Good observation. All the AMDroids are becoming the personification of Sanders: "Just wait until (a)next quarter, (b) next Intel Killer Chip is out, (c) latest speed problems are solved, (d) new OEM's sign up for our latest Intel KillerChip, (e) our current yield crash is fixed, (f) we're out of Chapter 11 ". Paul

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (57077)	5/3/1999 1:36:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1573824

Ten, The thing with the K7 is that it SHOULD finally put AMD on par with Intel in the MHz race. It SHOULD also be slightly faster than a PIII clock for clock. That's what we're excited about for the near term. For the long term, we expect that the K7 will scale to higher much better than Intel's P6, particularly as process and cache technology change over the next twelve months. Until Intel releases Willamette, assuming process technology develops at a constant rate at AMD and Intel, I would expect the K7 to extend its lead over the PIII in terms of performance over time. If this happens, then it will give AMD a real advantage in Intel's cash cow server market. I don't think anyone who regularly posts on this board has ever thought that the K7 would offer 40% faster performance than the PIII, clock for clock. If anything, I'd imagine that kind of performance leap is extremely unlikely given the limitations of the x86 architecture itself. Kevin