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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (55003)	4/9/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (3) of 1582633

Your question makes the assumption that the super-$1000 marketshare will continue to exist. The current pricing of "high-end" processors is ludicrous. When a competitor emerges that can compete in all processor performance categories (no I am not saying this is necessarily AMD, Mr Engel, so hold the sarcasm) and we see true price competition, rather than the rather skewed competition we are seeing at present, then it is inevitable that all models or processor will come down in price substantially. Who of us does not want to own a gigahertz processor? Call it a server system if you want, but I will fork out a few hundred bucks extra for one. So, what I anticipate is not that AMD moves out of supplying the sub-$1000 PC category, but that Intel is increasingly forced down into it. We (as consumers) will do well. I see it as inevitable that Intel will do badly, simply because they cannot hold the monopoly they have enjoyed. AMD will only survive if they pull AHEAD of Intel in the performance war. If they only achieve parity then they will end up the loser in the price wars.

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