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AMD K7 Interview

Jul 09, 1999 2:30am CST tags: John Carmack, AMD, Interview
The 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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