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AMD K7 Interview
by Steve Gibson, Jul 09, 1999 12:30am PDTThe AMD K7 Athlon press just doesnt stop does it? GlideUnderground chats with a AMD rep asking a number of good technical questions on what the K7 is all about. As I mentioned yesterday the benchmarks that came out as well as John Carmacks' praise of the CPU are some serious considerations.
The 200Mhz bus should be considered the bus between the CPU and the system logic (northbridge). The buses off of the chipset (AGP, memory, PCI, etc) are capable of running at speeds distinct from the 200Mhz connection between the CPU and system logic. We haven't talked about the details of the specific implementations or how these will affect overall system performance. Without going into too much detail on performance levels, I can say that the AMD Athlon processor is the industry's first seventh generation CPU and that we plan to demonstrate this level of performance through industry accepted benchmarks
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Why waste money right now
on that shit..fuck it
Anyone remember near the end of the 486 product line? Intel went up to the 486DX4-100 (33x3), while AMD went to 486DX4-120. (someone correct me if I am wrong). If it had been earlier, they would have done well, but it was too little too late.
I\'m really hoping that they can make a success of the K7. Unfortunately I won\'t be buying one very soon, as it is a poor decision to spend money on gaming when entering your last year of a 5 year undergraduate degree program, both from the standpoint of distraction (away from studies) and monetarily. I hope that the K7 lives on and that next summer I can get a 1 Ghz one that they have promised to bring out!
And about the intel buying AMD thing---it\'s possible, but that would leave 1 big manufacturer, and a few small ones. Intel for 95% of chips, and VIA (standalone cyrix), NSM (integrated Cyrix), and IDT (very small) for the other 5%. If this happens, Intel prices will go up. But they can\'t go so high that their medium level chips become more expensive than the (fewer) alternatives that offer comparable performance. Think about it. If Intel bought AMD and the price of the PIV-1000 (or whatever it is called then) went to $3000 (think of the 80\'s and how 386\'s were), who wouldn\'t just go buy dual Cyrix-700\'s from VIA (which will probably exist then if VIA continues the line) to get comparable performance with SMP?
So in other words, there is a limit to what Intel can do despite if they bought AMD. And that is excluding any FTC/DOJ action.
AMD is doing things right this time. They know they finally have the superior product and that intel won\'t be
able to compete with them any time soon so they are building up a stockpile of CPU\'s first so they can meet
the demand when they finally release the K7 to market. No doubt they are using the time to prepare a MAJOR
marketing campaign. Athlon is gonna own intel.
Even if AMD goes totally beserk and can fill ALL of the demand for this K7 for a f\'n year, even THEN intel has enough resources to buy AMD and everything in it or drive them totally bankrupt in a dirty pricing war.
It\'ll take a LOT more then one AMD processor (see first, then I believe it) to \'de throne\' Intel.
http://3dshack.com/onearticle.x/193
AMD IS GONNA BRING INTEL DOWN IN FLAMES BITCHES
but, what are the chances AMD can do it?
zero... and possibly none.
we might get a K7 by x-mas.