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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (57334)	5/5/1999 9:03:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572481

Ten, Not much. Intel did a 0.25 micron 1 GHz cooled demo before AMD did. The only difference is that AMD is willing to sell some of these gee-whiz refrigerated K7 systems. And no, I don't think the FPU was disabled in the Intel demo. Didn't you say that L1 cache was the limiting factor in clock speed, not the FPU? I am inclined to believe that the K7 demo was more legitimate than the Intel demo was. If PIII ran at 1GHz cooled, Intel would be shipping higher rated parts than they are. The slow ramp of PII/PIII MHz indicates to me that they are squeezing everything they can out of the design. The L1 cache may have been off in the PIII demo, as well as the FPU. Scumbria