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To: Dale J. who wrote (34460)	7/14/1998 1:24:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (2) of 1574247

Dale: <<Mendocino is a response to AMD not an initial challenge.>> Response to what? Validifying that the Celeron was a failure? Or Mendocino is to compete with K6-2? What are your premises? <<Mendocino is meant to stem the market losses away from AMD.>> How much of a market has Intel losed to AMD? <<Xeon will be the growth.>> Do you know what the market of Xeon is? The server market comprise of less than 3% of all the computers sold. The PC sold per year is 100Millions. <<From AMD's standpoint however, Mendocino is bullet headed their direction.>> In your dream. By the time the Mendocino is delivered AMD would have shipped over 3M K6-2. These 3M+ users will be asking for 3DNow softwares. Furthermore, at that time graphic card makers such as Nvidia, TDFX, Matrox, S3,etc. will be releasing their 3DNow drivers. These drivers will improve the K6-2 by 10-20%. The DirectX 6.0 improves the K6-2 additionally by 5-10%. K6-2 would still be a better proposition than Mendocino. Even with the Mendocino the CPU is still the bottle neck in 3D geometry transformation. Intel just doesn't have a 3D CPU. Maxwell

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