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Subject: Re: AMD ships K7 processor

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 13:16:12 06/24/99

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On June 24, 1999 at 15:22:26, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On June 24, 1999 at 13:32:09, Albert Silver wrote:
>[snip]
>>It's obvious that AMD plans on recouping their losses with this processor by
>>competing against the PIII. The announced prices are very revealing:
>>
>>500 Mhz chip - $324
>>550 Mhz chip - $479
>>600 Mhz chip - $699 (!)
>It looks like a *much* better buy to get two 500 MHz K7's than to get a 600 MHz
>K7.  Kind of strange pricing.
>[snip]

No multiprocessor support...yet.  Their pricing probably reflects their
manufacturing yields.  Really good yields for 600mhz will have to wait for the
move to a smaller die.



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