Intel just started digging their own grave - in an AMD-ish way -
Intel is cutting prices like mad, ...wich is very stupid frankly. Not that they have much joice...AMD has the better product.
But its up to amd what they want to do...they dont have (im speculating here ofcourse) large volumes of K7, so they sureley will sell ALL of them for almost any given price, high or low.
If amd aknowledges that its in the leading position, and prices their Athlons in the same way, that would be interesting. Because PRICE is a big factor in what makes a product low end or high end, as we have seen in the past .
If product "I" (intel) is priced $299, at 600 MHz, and product "A" (AMD) is priced $350, at 600 MHz, customers
probably think that A is faster than I, because it has allways been that way - more expansive is better -, thats
intels old segmenting tactic. Not the performance, but the price made the celeronA an inferior product compared to pII.
The thing was, AMD couldn't price their K6-2 nore K6-3 any higher than intels pII line because they missed the other aspect - major bettered performance , to underline their pricing strategy -.
Unfortunatly for intel, they havent got the performance on their side neither, at this moment.
So it's up to AMD to either brake it or make it.
Volumes arent that important, MHz and Pricing is...
I know that people are willing to search earth and moon
for a certain system they have set their minds on.
FHWL , Michael da Kota |
