Jim,
Did you see this? From aceshardware.com , interesting info about the K7 mobos.
100,000 Homeless K7s? KH Yeap
Sunday, November 14, 1999 (11:16 PM Pacific Standard Time)
According to CTech Taiwan [http://www.ctech.com.tw/d-news/news/info/88111309.asp ] , AMD will ship a total of 1.5 million K7s by the end of 1999, and about 100,000 of these K7s may be "homeless" due to the shortage of Slot-A motherboards. Ctech made an estimation and concluded that out of the 1.5 million K7s, about 1 million will end up in DIY market and for system integrators that are not Tier One OEMs like Compaq or IBM. Asus is reportedly the biggest Slot-A motherboard shippers to date. Combining Slot-A motherboard shipments from Asus, Gigabyte, MSI and FIC, there will be about 900,000 Slot-A motherboards out in the market by the end of the year, thus leaving about 100,000 K7s "homeless". Even though GVC and Biostar also make Slot-A motherboards, the quantity they ship is very small, and mostly for OEMs. AMD obviously is aware of this issue, and has allegedly made bold promise of buying out the motherboards if a motherboard maker makes but fails to sell its Slot-A motherboards.
aceshardware.com ____________________________
There is plenty of good news in this report even considering 100,000 mobo shortage - 1.5M K7s (ie, 1.3M in Q4'99), and 1.4M K7 mobos shipped by the year end; AMD guarantee to mobo makers, etc. Thanks to KH Yeap at Aces for providing us with this info from CTech, Taiwan.
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