Author: Eugene Nalimov
Date: 14:03:11 06/25/99
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On June 25, 1999 at 16:56:30, Ricardo Gibert wrote: >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. Yes, but *now* it's much cheaper to buy a dual Celeron (or even PII/350 or PII/400) than single-CPU K7. And while they are preparing SMP K7, Intel and Compaq are not staying still. Eugene
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