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To: Elmer who wrote (59460)	5/24/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573954

Elmer, Re: "If the "final" version of the K7 hasn't been out and running in their validation labs for weeks now, and their validation partners labs, then it is premature to call it "final". The total lack of credible benchmarks as well as leaks from system vendors is not a good sign, IMHO. Remember the K6? We heard from a number of sources well before release." Well first of all the K7 ran everything which tells me there were no major bugs. I don't know for sure that AMD may have the ability to "fix" microcode bugs in the field - although with enough of them there would be a speed penalty. Pure speculation on my part - but something like that would explain the poor performance of the FPU's. Such bugs can and would be easily fixable in metal layers. In addition we had heard that final K7's would have cache run at 1/2 speed. Allegedly the Bios date that showed up while running the tests was dated 3/31/99. And in some of the tests the K7 was a screamer so it would not surprise me if final silicon showed significant improvements. Having said all that I can tell you that I am underwhelmed by the results. I would not be surprised to see a slip in the K7 release of a few months IMHO. This may explain why K6-3's are becoming more available and there is talk of K6-3 500's. Perhaps more fab capacity is being used up by the K6-3's due to the K7 not being ready. And even though I tend to dislike Ashok Kumar his statement regarding K7 production delays/problems is bad news IMHO. If he is shooting from the Hip, AMD should issue a press release on the K7 status to kill the downward pressure on the stock. Regards, Kash