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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Process Boy who wrote (57624)	5/7/1999 5:40:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572208

From www.3dnow.net "A couple of days ago I was lucky enough to get my hands on a couple of production K7 processor modules. I work for a large contract manufacturing company and it seems that we are producing K7-based systems for HP in one of the other plants. However, the processor modules that go in the systems are manufactured in a section of the plant I work in and that is how I got a chance to see them. Some things I noted about the modules: - The processor speeds are 500, 550, and 600 MHZ. - The L2 cache chips run at 1/2 CPU clock speed, not 1/3 like I have seen mention elsewhere. - The module is not in a cartridge package like P2. It is a single PCB like a Celeron. Unfortunately, I can't give out any performance numbers since these processors weren't in systems yet. I just wanted to confirm that we do have processors and we are building systems (and apparently have been for at least a couple of weeks). If other computer manufacturers are as on track with their K7 systems as we are, AMD should have no problem with a product launch in June and plenty of systems ready to be sold." Kevin