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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (61304)	6/10/1999 5:08:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571973

Jim, Speaking of Mhz sells, here's something else that might sell. I just was passed on some rumor type information which suggested that VIA's new k7 chipset may support esdram.. That would be quite an interesting development and should have Scumbria real pleased. Steve

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (61304)	6/10/1999 5:16:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1571973

Jim - RE: "Shawn, Remember, Mhz Sells (TM-McMannis)...." Yeah, yeah, yeah. ;) Here is an idea Paul and Elmer will hate - Maybe K7 systems aren't coming out until August to allow time for the 500MHz K6-III to sell! (Just joking.) Seriously, the K6-III hasn't found its niche yet in the US market. The Celeron 500 will come out soon and that means the K6-2 500 should also, and of course the K7. Like you said, that doesn't leave much room or time for the K6-III to sell. If it is doing well in Japan, where consumers are more tech-oriented, the K6-III should do all right if demand is enough.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (61304)	6/10/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571973

Isn't it significant that the availability of K6-III is not static but appears to be actually decreasing? There have been more K6-III available in the past. K7 is being positioned as high end workstation (against PIII), because server infrastructure is not yet available. So why should AMD continue manufacturing K6-III at all? It was always a stopgap, adding the cache to mitigate the poor FPU performance. Seems like a neat marketing move would be to introduce your P-III equivalent for just long enough to get it known, and then phase it out as you introduce the next generation chip that obsoletes it. Phasing out K6-III avoids having too many overlapping products on the market at once, gives a good split between high-end/low-end choices and sends a strong message to those people currently paying big bucks for P-III.