I've read every bit of information I could find about this chip over the
last couple of months. Here's the deal:
Starting at 500MHz clock
and 200 MHz bus (this will probably include support for some of the new
RAM types like RDRAM)
Slot A(A for alpha, as in DEC (now compaq) alpha, the folks who created
some of the technology for this chip) this means new motherboards and
chipsets, probably initially supplied only by AMD.
EV6 bus architecture (again from the dec alpha, this is fast stuff)
Released sometime between May and August 1999, priced to be competitive
with whatever intel has out at the time but early benchmarks show it
outperforming the PIII.
Support for multiple processors (intel has had this for a while in their
chips and chipsets but this is trhe first time an intel competitor has
this).

That's about all I know.


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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