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To: RDM who wrote (59476)	5/24/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1573922

The benchmarks on A3 board may be two revisions C3 production boards. jc-news.com 99/04/24, 1:02pm - Yoavf tells me that this place (a vendor in Israel) suggests the K6-3-500 will be available in two weeks. Meanwhile, AMD released their K6-3P mobile chip at 350 and 380MHz. This puts AMD temporarily on top in the MHz dep't (and perhaps in the performance dep't, but nobody ever benches notebooks anyway), at least until Intel releases their 180nm 400 and 433MHz Dixon chips sometime next month. Also, regarding the early beta K7 preview mentioned elsewhere. I am trying to figure out the age of that particular revision -- Anand at one point mentioned that the earlier revisions of the K7 were buggy as hell, leading to an implication that those versions may have had to be crippled, performance-wise, in order to run at that point. I'm told that the BIOS date was from late March, but the interesting thing is that the board had etched on it "Fester A3". Now, we all know that Fester is the name of the boards that have been used in all the public K7 demos this year (well, AFAIK). Anyway, according to my secret spies, the actual final revision code (or at least, one very close to final) of the production K7 is supposed to be C3. Is this a hint? Draw your own conclusions here, but I think it's possible that A3 may be referring to this particular demo combo being two "bugfix" generations behind