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To: Paul Engel who wrote (57165)	5/4/1999 1:34:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572560

Re: "You neglected to REPORT that the jump from 400 to 475 MHz required a 10% JACK UP VOLTAGE BOOST to 2.4 volts - from 2.2 volts." If AMD needs to jack up the voltage of the K7 to hit 1.1 Gig, you won't hear me complaining. You really should stop this tiresome whining about an engineering decision that has ZERO practical impact on CPU sales or performance. Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (57165)	5/4/1999 3:16:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572560

Paul, Setting aside all the issues on AMD and why it may (not) succeed.... Technically the K6 design is much more shallower pipe than PII/III and still AMD has been able to drag this MHz race this far. Even after taking into account the voltage bump, is it not impressive that AMD has been able to get the K6 family into the high-400 MHz range? Why? Or why not? What is your estimate of where AMD will begin K7 on 180nm and how far AMD can ramp its K7 on 180nm (ignore copper)? Chuck