Niceguy Iïm beginning to think $1.00 eps is in the bag for Q1...Anybody else here think so?
Haven't tried to figure earnings yet...maybe this week.
March 06, 2000...An AMD Historical Date!
You said it! Check out this mainstream-press article (I wonder if that's why *ntel moved up their launch date?):
foxnews.com
The Gigahertz Chip Hits
The Speeded-Up Marketplace
7:05 a.m. ET (1205 GMT) March 7, 2000
SAN JOSE, Calif. ? The whiz-bang computer age just got even faster.
The first gigahertz processor hits the market Tuesday, crunching information at 1,000 megahertz, or 1 billion bits of information per second ? a speed many engineers thought impossible just a decade ago.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. says its new Athlon chip will make computers 10 times faster than just six years ago, paving the way for speedier software and games.
"Just as the achievement of Chuck Yeager signaled the beginning of a new era in aviation, the one gigahertz processor ushers in a new era of information technology," AMD chief executive Jerry Sanders said Monday.
AMD's Athlon chip comes a day before the six-year anniversary of rival Intel Corp.'s breaking the 100 megahertz barrier with its Pentium chip, and ahead of that company's expected announcement that it, too, will ship its own gigahertz chip.
Intel's processors provide the brainpower for nearly 90 percent of the world's computers, but it has been locked in a race with Sunnyvale-based AMD to market a chip with more computing power than any other.
Analysts say consumers in coming years will feel the need for speed as the computer shifts from its current role as a device used mainly for word processing, surfing the Internet and playing games into a central hub that connects various devices in the home to each other.
But some analysts questioned whether speedy chips will catch on quickly with consumers, particularly since the Athlon chip pushes a computer's pricetag up by $1,300. The new chip will be sold initially in Compaq and Gateway computers.
Most consumers have computers that run at less than 500 megahertz, according to U.S. shipment data for 1998-1999 from research firm Dataquest, a unit of Gartner Group.
"We definitely believe that consumers will need (faster processing speeds), but the question is a matter of when," said analyst Charles Galvin at CS First Boston.
Hope you're enjoying your vacation.
-Scot |
