Yahoo News Story
"SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 16, 1998--AMD (NYSE:AMD - news) today announced that Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) and VIA Technologies plan to deliver optimized, high-performance chipsets designed to support AMD's seventh-generation AMD-K7(tm) processor."
"``We welcome the opportunity to develop advanced chipset solutions for the AMD-K7 processor,'' said Wen-Chi Chen, president and CEO of VIA Technologies. ``Our decision to support AMD's seventh-generation microprocessor is a natural outgrowth of our longstanding relationship with AMD. We believe that the AMD-K7 processor and optimized chipset products from VIA can set the pace for seventh-generation computing platforms.``"
"About the AMD-K7(tm) Processor
The AMD-K7 processor with 3DNow!(tm) technology is a Microsoft® Windows® compatible, seventh-generation design featuring a deeply pipelined, nine-issue superscalar microarchitecture optimized for high clock frequency; a superscalar pipelined floating point unit; 128KB of on-chip level one (L1) cache; a programmable high-performance backside L2 cache interface; and a 200 MHz Alpha EV6 compatible system bus interface with support for scalable multiprocessing."
