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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Adrian Wu who wrote (32117)4/23/1998 11:40:00 PM
From: Time Traveler  Read Replies (2) of 1583505
 
The company VIA and its MVP3 chipset sound very impressive. Let's give VIA a big hand for being the Supplier of the Year awarded by Compaq! How much does a motherboards from either ASUS or MAX equipped with this chipset cost? And where can I buy one?

Today, all thanks to 20M+ Socket-7 CPUs coming out every quarter, the Socket-7 motherboards thus enjoy a tactical advantage of being very low cost. However, when Intel shuts off the pipe flow of Socket-7 CPUs, what would the MB manufacturers do? I would say they have to stop producing too many Socket-7 MBs. (Oh, please let me know if I am insulting your intelligence here by taking your hand through this exercise.) Then, the cost would start to increase, right? Adding insult to injury, given that Socket-7 are soon to be obsolete and that super Socket-7 MBs are not widely available yet, this is going to be a big problem for AMD's meager 2M- projected super Socket-7 CPUs. Let's take a few moment to digest this: 20M Slot-I versus 2M super Socket-7. Think. Think. Think.

Who now would endorse 20M Slot-Is which have been available for over half a year? Who would in the right of mind endorse 2M super Socket-7s which have not proved themselves in the market?

Despite all that, I do thank you for listing all these very obscure 34 motherboard makers who WILL BE releasing super Socket-7 though. Please come back when they ARE available.

Time Traveler
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