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Dan Shaughnessy <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 8 Jan 1999 23:03:02 -0600
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This is from the PCWORLD website
http://www.pcworld.com/cgi-bin/pcwtoday?ID=9271 :

"AMD Readies Rival K6-3

Around the same time, in late February or early March, rival processor
vendor Advanced Micro Devices is also expected to introduce a new 450-MHz
processor called K6-3.

The K6-3, a follow up to the company's K6-2 series, will have the addition
of 256K of performance-enhancing Level 2 cache memory integrated into the
same piece of silicon as the processor core, AMD officials said earlier.

AMD's K6-3 chips, however, will not include the new Katmai instructions.
Instead, AMD will continue to integrate its own multimedia-enhancing
instruction set, called 3DNow, which it introduced in the K6-2 series.

In this year's second quarter, AMD is also expected to take the wraps of its
next-generation processor, the K7, which will run at clock-speeds of 500MHz
and higher."



>I would like to find info about the K6-3 also called Sharptooth but just
>found it at the tomshardware web site. Even on the AMD web site I didn't
>find any info.
>
>Does anybody know some thing about it>? When they will start to sell? How
>much the will? What motherboard will best drive it? I'm thinking to buy a
>Tyan S1590S Trinty 100AT mobo. Will it drive the K6-3.
>

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