Author: Ricardo Gibert
Date: 13:56:30 06/25/99
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On June 25, 1999 at 11:40:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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.
So this is how false rumors get started. The following is from
http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/9980.html
"About the AMD Athlon™ Processor Architecture
The AMD Athlon processor is an x86-compatible, seventh-generation
design featuring a super-pipelined, nine-issue superscalar
microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; the industry's
first fully pipelined, superscalar floating point unit for x86
platforms; high-performance cache technology, including 128KB of
on-chip level-one (L1) cache and a programmable,
high-performance backside L2 cache interface; enhanced 3DNow!™
technology and multimedia performance; and the AMD
Athlon system bus--a 200-MHz system interface based on the Alpha™ EV6
bus protocol with support for scalable multiprocessing.
The initial versions of the AMD Athlon processor are manufactured on
AMD's 0.25-micron process technology in Fab 25 in Austin,
Texas."
Note the phrase "...with support for scalable multiprocessing." So
multiprocessing will be available...later. Not now. Intel does the same. You
don't get everything all at once.
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