Chuck,
< What news is out there in the very near term to support the stock from sinking from the current levels?
- Stock split (highly likely)
- Thunderbird/SPitfire launch (highly likely by June 5th and 99.999% before end of June)
- Earnings preannouncement (highly likely)
- Blowout Earnings (almost guaranteed)
Anything else? >
You pretty much included all the big events that are in the pipe.
Here is a press release by AMD on Athlon + DDR Platform (can't locate it at AMD Web site - may be the press release was done in Singapore):
(credit amd_55, YAHOO Msg board)
quote.bloomberg.com
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AMD DEVELOPS ATHLON PROCESSOR
PLATFORM SUPPORTING DDR MEMORY
The following is a reformatted version of a press release issued by Advanced Micro Devices)
AMD DEVELOPS FIRST AMD ATHLON PROCESSOR PLATFORM SUPPORTING DOUBLE DATA RATE (DDR) MEMORY
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Singapore-May 24, 2000-AMD has announced a prototype AMD Athlon processor platform featuring support for high performance double data rate (DDR) memory. DDR memory is the highest-bandwidth and lowest latency PC memory technology currently available, and is planned to enable the AMD Athlon processor platform to deliver new levels of performance on math-intensive applications like video editing, CAD/CAM, scientific applications, and Internet content creation.
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The prototype AMD Athlon processor platform supporting DDR memory was demonstrated recently at the WinHEC conference in New Orleans in conjunction with the leading memory manufacturers that plan to produce DDR memory this year, including Micron, Samsung, Toshiba, Hitachi, NEC, Hyundai, and Infineon Technologies. Both the AMD-760 chipset and DDR memory modules are planned to be available in the second half of 2000.
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-END- -0- (CRL) May/25/2000 5:20 GMT
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The article also contains comments from some of the DDR manufacturers (Micron, Hyundai, Samsung,...).
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