AMD K7 Interview

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PCParadox has an interview with Richard Baker of AMD talking about the new K7 Athlon CPU that we should be able to get a hold of within a month. Also make sure and check out the Athlon benchmarks that came out a couple days ago.

Does the release of the PIII Coppermine worry you at all, regarding the speed increases that Intel will get with its move to on-die cache and Copper technology?
No. Athlon has 128k of on-die cache and as you will see from the performance metrics which we have already published on our web site, we expect to outperform coppermine when it finally comes out in November. Also coppermine will debut at 600 Mhz, we have 600 Mhz now. Again, coppermine does not use copper interconnect.

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    July 8, 1999 11:21 AM

    WTF is a athlong? Isnt it Athlon :) Dont you just love the post quality control a thread discussion provides? Why did you buy a Gateway? Buy a Micron and get a good deal on a kick ass peice of hardware.

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