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To: THE WATSONYOUTH who wrote (82569)	12/10/1999 12:34:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 1572507

Re: Why only 750MHz as the initial .18um release?... Either or both companies (or neither) could have faster parts ready to go. A lot of boxes have been built by OEMS for an XMAS market that could vanish if an announcement made 500MHZ to 600MHZ machines look pathetic. Intel OEMS have a lot of PIIIs to move at these speeds and AMD has some Athlons. Neither company wants to antagonize the retail channel at this point. Just my take on things, Dan PS - From a very small sample - what I've seen in stores seemed to show that AMD may have cleared out most of the sub 600 Athlons (I've seen ads for 500MHZ Athlons "while quantity lasts" - stores I visited had mostly 600s in stock with some faster and none slower. There were a fair number of 450, 500, and 550 Pentiums with few faster. I'd expect the retailers would hate to be sitting on a pile of expensive sub 600MHZ Pentiums (or Athlons) come January 1!

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