Got to http://www.tomshardware.com he has info on the K7, they will be a
slotted chip, starting at 500mhz I believe, and YES they will have a
faster bus speed... something like 166-200mhz.  Also they will have
(reportedly) much improved FPUs.  However, the K7 is awhile down the
road (2H 99 at earliest) especially since the K6-3's were supposed to be
out the gate in early January and have yet to hit OEM's

Steve


Ken wrote:
> 
> Margus Ramst wrote:
> >
> > As far as I know, there are only two main improvements in the PIII chip
> > (somewhat higher frequency aside). It has the KNI (also called MMX II),
> > which is of no use to POV. And it has a larger on-chip L1 cache. I'm not
> > sure about the effect of this; but I do know that my Celeron, which has 4X
> > less L2 cache than a PII, is still as fast at POV as a PII at the same MHz.
> > So I'd guess the effect will not be too great (in POV)
> > And Intel had the "great" idea of this identification code in PIII... Big
> > Brother Inside.
> > Anyway, I'd wait for AMD's K7. It has somereally  impressive stats and is
> > probably much better value for your money (a lot of money in both cases)
> >
> > Margus
> 
> I looked at their press release web page and could not find
> any real performance or operating data available. Do you know
> what the top end will be on these - 400mhz more ? and if they
> will operate at faster buss speed than their predecessors.
> They had about 8 different pages to visit and not one had
> any information except that yes they have devoloped it and
> yes they plan to sell them.
> 
> --
> Ken Tyler
> 
> tyl### [at] pacbellnet

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