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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (50604)2/23/1999 1:16:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (2) of 1573458
 
<Still, the fair person that I am, the Pentium III does have MHz going for it and volume.>

While we're being fair, let me take my turn and say that the K6-3 (oh, my bad, the K6-III) is perhaps AMD's first serious contender for the business segment of the market. The Super7 platform is, more or less, getting better in reliability every month. And now AMD has a chip which runs office applications just as fast as Intel's latest-n-greatest. Like Jim said before, AMD can neatly position the K6-III somewhere in-between the Pentium III and the Celeron. If only AMD can make enough of those K6-III chips, we can finally see those chips start to dot cubicle-land.

Yet the K6-III does present a quandary for the guys in charge at AMD. It's pretty much a given that AMD is capacity-constrained right now, so we have to ask how much K6-2 production must be sacrificed for K6-3 production. I would guess that AMD will try and leave the sub-$1000 retail market as soon as possible, and let Intel have the el-cheapo marketshare down there. But that's kind of tough since AMD already dug itself into the profitless sub-$1000 mess.

So now that AMD has made the K6-III announcement, when can we start seeing the first CPU available on Pricewatch?

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