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To: Paul Engel who wrote (61528)	6/11/1999 6:32:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1572655

Re: "Just when did AMD win "the war at the high end " ?" You're right. There is no war. Nor will there be one. When K7 ships, the market will force Intel into an untimely strategic withdrawal from the "high end" of the sigle processor market--right into the midrange, where at that point the PIII will belong. <GGG> Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (61528)	6/11/1999 6:33:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572655

Paul, Re:"Just when did AMD win "the war at the high end " ? As I recall, they are not even SHIPPING this "winner" yet." The benchmarks are clear and they are in: The K7 BLOWS away intels SERVER chip by 40%!!!! AMD's server version of K7 with up to 8MB of cache will DESTROY the Xeon spec marks. In fact they will clean up the Alpha/HP marks as well. And as far as shipping. You bet your A$$ they are shipping right NOW!!! However being capacity constrained AMD will switch some K6-2 capacity to K6III and K7 capacity. With end PC unit volumes running 20% over last year and AMD capacity constrained and Cyrix basically dead:This will be good for both AMD and Intel IMHO. Regards, Kash