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To: Joey Smith who wrote (36336)	8/25/1998 8:07:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) of 1574030

Joey: <<dale, the OEM support for celery was very impressive today. bad news for AMD and its k6-2...looks like AMD will miss the "sweet spot" again in terms of pricing and find its chips in niche markets...this has to worry even the most ardent AMD supporters like maxwell and jimmy..>> Hah, hah, hah! It is you who have to worry. Mendocino doesn't worry me. It is you that have to worry. The K6-2 has unique 3D engine using SIMD that accelerate 3D applications beyond what a PII and Mendocino can do. Its pricing structure is cheap enough to entice people to buy. Intel had to sacrifice profits by going to a larger die size to distract consumers from buying the superior K6-2. They are hoping the Mendocino will buy them time to get their KNI Katmai out. The problem is that the KNI 3DLater is late, very late! 3DNow will have 12M users installed by the time KNI hits the market. KNI instruction may be more extensive than 3DNow! but it WILL NOT BE THE STANDARD, just like Windows is the standard rather than OS/2. There is nothing great about Mendocino. It is not even faster than the PII at same clock speed and it is not even cheaper than K6-2. Maxwell

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