Word of the week - AMD K6
Ag@whd
K6 (referred to by its manufacturer as AMD-K6) is the latest in a line
of microprocessors from AMD that competes with Intel's Pentium II series
of microprocessors. Computer magazine reviewers running benchmarks that
compare computers that have the K6 to those with Pentium IIs generally
rate the K6 as slightly better in performance and considerably cheaper
in price. K6 is a basic microprocessor design on which many different
models are or will be based. Among the features of K6 that make it
effective are:
* Its ability to break the more complex instructions into simpler and
more quickly performed instructions, effectively converting the complex
instruction set it supports into a reduced instruction set computing
(RISC) approach & an exceptionally large 64 KB of L1 cache
* 8.8 million transistors using IBM's 'flip-chip' technology
* The ability to migrate the design from a .30 micron line-width design
to a .25 micron design for future versions
* Use of the Socket 7 infrastructure
AMD is part of a consortium that is developing a follow-on to the Socket
7 infrastructure called the Super7 platform. Super7 will include an
Accelerated Graphics Processor (AGP) and a 100 MHz bus.
By August 1998, AMD had released K6 versions that operate at 166,200,
233, and 266 MHz. All are designed for a 66 MHz bus. The 266 version is
also known as K6+. The K6-266 operates at about 2.5 volts of power
producing a low amount of heat, and is expected to be a good candidate
for mobile computing.
* AMD provides the complete K6 specifications at www.amd.com
/products/cpg/k623d/
Source: Word of the week and the top 10 list are produced in association
with the whatis.com web site, at www.whatis.com, the online encyclopedia
of information technology.
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Guy King
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> 2.5 volts of power
Ah, units swapped while you wait?
BTW Adrain. wouldn't it be easier to just give us the URL for all
this junk instead of posting yards of it?
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John Greetham
> AMD K6
> Source: Word of the week and the top 10 list are produced in association
> with the whatis.com web site, at www.whatis.com, the online encyclopedia
> of information technology.
Not quite sure what your point is here Ardian - you are not using any
'emoticon'. Surely it cannot be that you think this information
worthy of disemination due to its currency - all items listed are
virtually unobtainable through discontinuation.
The only reason I can suppose is to indicate the inefficency of the
'Word of the Week' in being some three months late with news (and
three months in computing is . . . . ) but why would that need such a
lengthy post?
????
JG
Ag@whd
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>The message <365fe716...@news.zetnet.co.uk>
> from w...@directors-1.zetnet.zet (Ag@whd) contains these words:
>
>> 2.5 volts of power
>
>Ah, units swapped while you wait?
>
>BTW Adrain. wouldn't it be easier to just give us the URL for all
>this junk instead of posting yards of it?
No URL.
OCR.
As DWG might say, it amuses me :-)
Ag@whd
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>> Source: Word of the week and the top 10 list are produced in association
>> with the whatis.com web site, at www.whatis.com, the online encyclopedia
>> of information technology.
>
>Not quite sure what your point is here Ardian - you are not using any
>'emoticon'. Surely it cannot be that you think this information
>worthy of disemination due to its currency - all items listed are
>virtually unobtainable through discontinuation.
K6 discontinued?
>The only reason I can suppose is to indicate the inefficency of the
>'Word of the Week' in being some three months late with news (and
>three months in computing is . . . . ) but why would that need such a
>lengthy post?
>????
I thought it was interesting,
Ag@whd
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>No URL.
Well, there's a URL for whatis but I get this from a magazine.
There's occasionally an interesting one. The one on DVD was quite good.
Linda Casey
from Guy King <guy....@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> BTW Adrain. wouldn't it be easier to just give us the URL for all
> this junk instead of posting yards of it?
Or the first par. or two, which if well written should encapsulate
the point of the piece, then the URL so anybody interested in filling
out the details can read the whole item? I have to admit I delete
about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
Linda
Ag@whd
Nicholson) wrote these words:
>>I have to admit I delete
>>about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
>
>I'm sure Adrian will get bored eventually :-)
Usually do.
Guy King
from Linda Casey <lca...@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
> I have to admit I delete
> about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
The boring bit is reading them to decide which are interesting.
Ag@whd
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>The message <199811291...@zetnet.co.uk>
> from Linda Casey <lca...@zetnet.co.uk> contains these words:
>
>> I have to admit I delete
>> about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
>
>The boring bit is reading them to decide which are interesting.
You make my day .. ;-(
Rodney Wakefield
from w...@directors-1.zetnet.zet (Ag@whd) contains these words:
> On Sun, 29 Nov 1998 14:28:44 GMT, rob.ni...@zetnet.co.uk (Rob
> Nicholson) wrote these words:
> >>I have to admit I delete
> >>about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
> >
> >I'm sure Adrian will get bored eventually :-)
> Usually do.
Hurry it up a bit then.
Rod
Rob Nicholson
>about 2/3 of them unread, but the others are of interest.
I'm sure Adrian will get bored eventually :-)
Rob.
Rob Nicholson
Think so. It's the K6 II now.