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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57091)	5/3/1999 3:00:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

Jimmy, Re: K7 architetcure I agree that the K-7 is much better than the PIII and it may be up to 20% faster if everyting was equal. In fact if the roles were reversed then I would agree that AMD was dead meat if Intel had a P-7 coming out. Unfortunately Intel has a faster process, better MB/chipset infrastructure etc. So if we say that their process is 20% faster then that may well negate the 20% better architecture argument. My expectation is that the K7 will allow AMD to catch up to Intel in overall performance by year end. If they can deliver any volumes the upside is tremendous. And thats why I am still long the stock. Regards, Kash.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (57091)	5/3/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572777

<Let me ask you this. Everything else equal which core will scale better the K7 pr P-III? If the K7 does then AMD will have achieved it's most important goal. Leading the MHz race. Add a great FPU and they will have taken both Intels advantages.> I really don't know which core will scale better. The K7 has a 10-stage pipeline, while the Pentium III has a 12 to 14-stage pipeline. Judging from this alone, both cores will scale similarly. (Note: Just because AMD was able to get to 475 MHz with a 5-stage pipeline doesn't mean anything. If Intel really wanted to, they could have pushed the 6-stage Pentium MMX to similar speeds.) Of course, there are other factors behind MHz scalability besides long pipelines. All I know is that there isn't anything in the K7 foils that convinced me that the K7 is inherently much more scalable in MHz than the P6. Tenchusatsu