Pravin, Re: K6-2 has dried up...
Indeed the K6-2 appears to have dried up but I do have an encouraging report from a reliable source, that source being Mrs. CrazyMan. Turns out she dropped by our Best Buy store today and took time to observe AMD's retail offerings.
Not a K6 to be found amongst the mobile offerings, however, and this is the good news, 6 of the 10 mobiles offered were powered by AMD K6-2+ chips. Lowest was 500MHz and the highest was 550MHz. The 4 Intel mobiles had their highest speed at 600MHz. Our reporter (God bless her soul) does not remember the lowest mobile Intel MHz.
Of the desktop selection, AMD rules! Both CPQ and HP AMD based machines were represented in frequencies as follows: the lowest frequency is not remembered (God bless her soul) and the highest was 1GHz. Our gracious reporter does remember lots of AMD machines in the 850MHz-950MHz range. I quote her here, "I started checking out the CPQ 1 GHz machine and moved down the line to lower speed machines and saw 900MHz AMD, 850MHz AMD... finally I gave up on the MHz and just saw AMD, AMD, AMD...as I was moving down the line a customer asked the salesman when did CPQ come out with the new front cover (it's translucent blueish grey, not bad looking). Then all of a sudden the display began looking a little crappy, kind of cluttered and pushed together, smaller screens, etc. unlike the AMD section where there was definitely more space between machines, I was then in the Intel section. I don't remember if CPQ had an Intel 733MHz but in the HP section the highest speed Intel machine was a 733MHz. That was the fastest Intel machine available. HP was well represented with high speed AMD machines up to 950MHz".
Looks like Jerry has a chance at selling those 3.6 million processors that he is so confident that he can.
Kindest regards,
CrazyMan |
