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Subject: Re: AMD ships K7 processor

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 08:40:32 06/25/99

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On June 25, 1999 at 08:31:12, Francesco Di Tolla wrote:
>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.
>
>Weel K7 in SMP doesn't work, while it seems that it works for celeron, so 2
>Celerons 400 (or 466) in a suitable adapted PII double board should be cheaper
>and faster....
That's very strange, to structure a high-end, very expensive processor to not
perform SMP.  I think I'll wait for COMPAQ 21364.



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