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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (61304)6/10/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke  Read Replies (2) of 1571926
 
Isn't it significant that the availability of K6-III is not static but appears to be actually decreasing? There have been more K6-III available in the past.

K7 is being positioned as high end workstation (against PIII), because server infrastructure is not yet available. So why should AMD continue manufacturing K6-III at all? It was always a stopgap, adding the cache to mitigate the poor FPU performance.

Seems like a neat marketing move would be to introduce your P-III equivalent for just long enough to get it known, and then phase it out as you introduce the next generation chip that obsoletes it. Phasing out K6-III avoids having too many overlapping products on the market at once, gives a good split between high-end/low-end choices and sends a strong message to those people currently paying big bucks for P-III.
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