Here's a good page about the K7:

http://www.chiptech.com/jc/AMD/K7_Preview.shtml

Margus

Chris Maryan wrote in message <36B7BB4F.FBA69F0D@geocities.com>...
>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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