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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62804)	6/22/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579774

Tench, Re: "And of course, you have no problem whatsoever with AMD trying to "fool the customers" by not publishing any FPU-based benchmarks for their K6-III, or publishing NT-based benchmarks for that matter. And you had no problem whatsoever when AMD said their K6-2's 3D performance was on-par with a Pentium II 400, even though no one is able to reproduce AMD's outrageous claims anymore. (Heck, on a related note, I'm sure you had no problem whatsoever with Apple saying that the iMac was faster than a 400 MHz Pentium II based on a single synthetic benchmark.)" Clearly the KIII would have sucked on SPEC and thats why they didn't publish the numbers. AMD did not fool anybody however - as there are few if any KIII users using them in workstations or servers. My point is that the truth will come out. And more and more folks have figured out that the Celeron is a great chip. And it will eat into the PIII high margin biz. In fact the Celeron is probably a bigger threat than the K6II/K6III/K7 combined right now. I expect a 500Mhz celery will smoke a PIII 450 and even a PIII 500. In Q4 guess what consumers will be buying. And the celeron 550/600 will probably give Coppermine 550/600 a run for its money when it finally shows up next year. The segmentation strategy was great when there was significant performance difference between the CPU's. Folks are figuring out Intels low end Celerys are great and so even if these guys would never buy a non-intel chip they will buy a celery based machine. Regards, Kash