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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (28808)	2/25/1998 2:33:00 PM
From: Maverick	of 1587520

Covington vs K6 The IT buyer wins with increased choice By Michael Caton, PC Week Labs Intel Corp. is battling its rivals for the low-end desktop, but the winner will ultimately be the IT buyer, who can sift through the rubble for a number of low-cost, high-performance chips. Intel is attempting to maintain its stronghold in the low-end desktop market with its forthcoming Pentium II processor, code-named Covington, but it faces stiff competition from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Cyrix Corp. and Integrated Device Merced Technologies Inc. With the latest iteration of the low can it go? Pentium II, Deschutes, Intel lowered processor production costs and power consumption and increased clock and bus speeds. The Covington chip, due in the third quarter, doesn't have the L2 cache and will replace the Pentium processor in the most price-sensitive segments of the desktop PC market. Intel still dominates the PC chip market, but not for lack of worthy competition. In PC Week Labs' tests, systems based on AMD's K6 and Cyrix's 6X86MX processors generally performed as well as systems based on lower-speed Pentium IIs at Pentium price levels.

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