There is one simple reason why AMD stopped making the K6-III processor chip. that reason is that the chip was just too good. Yes seriously the K6-III was too good for AMD to sell.
Strange you think that AMD would not sell such a good chip. Well the reason behind it was that AMD was about to release the Athlon at the time which would be its new intel beating power chip. To make the Athlon such a succsess they had to make the gap between its last chip and this new one as big as possible.
AMD feared that if the K6-III was still on sale it would eat into the profits of the Athlon and so make the Athlon not appear as good. Image is just as important as the profits. The K6-III 450 would be about the equivalent power or a k6-2 550-600 in my opinion. With a decent graphics card it would suit any mid range system.
The K6-III was expensive to produce though as everytime the cache on the chip failed (or even one byte) the whole chip had to be discarded because of the way it was manufacured. This as well made the decision to disband the production of the K6-III an easy one for AMD to make.
If you ever find one of these chips they are a very good buy and if you want a quick upgrade to a socket 7 board then get this one its great.
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