Process Boy I certainly think your post is highly valueable, sorry to get a little POed at VPN at his failed attempt at thought.
I think the Athlon is not a knock out blow to Intel, as I said in the orginal post the Intel has capacity over AMD. That is not trivial, its a big market, and AMD does not have a chance at feeding the whole thing. (unless they lease capacity from IBM, but I digress) But the K7 was designed by (Alpha crew)people very experienced with ramping MHZ, and the Athlon should have all the staying power of the orginal Pentium that came out at a mere 60-66 MHZ.
So for a 1.5 years, starting now, I think AMD has a competive part against all market segments against Intel. This is a new place for AMD, so significant, that monogomus Gateway is not fooling around.
Key message---The scraps left by Intel will bring about a strong competitor, you now see now, AMD grew strong on the sub-1000 class PCs with the K6 series.
Back to the failed Merced, this partnership with HP is a total failure IMO, who know what types of engineer bitch fights must have taken place, but the end result is a pathetically delayed part. So delayed that the dual generation teams working in tandem collided. Essential you have the P8 ready within months of the release of Merced. The only reason why the Merced will be released is to save face. They screwed up, the redesigned, the borrowed newer technology, and finally came up with a part.
That is what I mean by the P7 failure. The AMD Athlon also is the overclocker CPU of choice too. Besides all this I think the edge has been taken off Processor speed and given to the Video Card.
The last question I have, is how much will Windows 2000 be a hog and slower than Windows98, that could have some effect in all this
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