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To: Scumbria who wrote (57337)	5/5/1999 9:15:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572507

<The slow ramp of PII/PIII MHz indicates to me that they are squeezing everything they can out of the design.> Guess you have a different definition of what a "ramp-up" is. AMD introduces a new clock speed for a K6-2 or a K6-III, but the volumes don't come until several weeks later. Intel introduces a new clock speed for the Pentium III, and right at that moment you can expect volumes to be huge. Maybe if Intel were as desperate as AMD is, Intel could jack up the voltage of the Pentium III by two-tenths of a volt and release the Pentium III at 600 MHz. <The L1 cache may have been off in the PIII demo, as well as the FPU.> How do you know? The L1 cache may have been turned off in the K7 demo as well. Speculation, Scumbria. Tenchusatsu