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From: rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Am386 release?
Message-ID: <27d84e3c.3f6a@petunia.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 9 Mar 91 02:53:48 GMT
Reply-To: rteasdal@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Falconer)
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407
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	There has been a fair bit of speculation locally about the
AMD 386 clones, which supposedly (?) are to be formally announced and
shipped this month. The silicon is for real - in fact, a thief in
Malaysia hijacked an AMD truck running from the local AMD final
assembly (no fab there, if I have it right) to the airport. He went
straight to the packages containing the Am386 chips and took only
those devices, out of the many he had to choose from... sounds like
the Intel allocation policy has some of the Asian clonemakers hungry
enough to do just about _anything_ to get 386s!

	Does anyone have any details about the design? It is, based
on the prepress, a full CMOS implementation with an ultra low-power
mode eminently suitable for laptops. Also, there is a 40 Mhz version
which is reputedly going to be packaged with a fast coprocessor as
a 486 price buster. It sounds as though AMD has a real winner going
here, and the Intel monopoly has been broken at last (hurrah!).



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