AMD K7 Update

July 29, 1999 1:40 AM

C|Net posted this bit on the AMD Athlon (K7) which you better be excited about. It looks like AMD will indeed be moving to the 0.18micron technology late this year, here is a bit of it thanks to AMDZone. The big news? The NDA holding back so much info goes out on the 9th. of next month.

Athlon chips were only released to motherboard manufacturers late last month. In the fourth quarter of this year, AMD will begin to shift to the more advanced "0.18-micron" manufacturing process, said Anixter. Then, immediately following the shift to 0.18-microns, the company will start making its chips with copper, rather than aluminum, wires.

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July 29, 1999 3:47 AM

So what is the perfect system for Quake3 then? A AMD K7 with a NVIDIA NV10?