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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (63182)	6/24/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572259

Re: "Nothing's changed, then. K6-2 was also used as a similar bargaining chip by the big Tier 1 guys, and we all know what happened next. That big gaping $200 million wound in AMD's side is a clue." I'll be convinced of that when all you Intel employees start ignoring this thread because you no longer care. Kevin

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (63182)	6/24/1999 3:07:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572259

Ten, <Nothing's changed, then.> What did you expect to suddenly change? The "800-pound gorilla" suddenly become a shy little kitten? Or all the R&D expenses associated with Athlon infrastructure development at AMD's partners IBM and Compaq just suddenly disappear? <the Athlon just becomes a mere bargaining chip, a symbolic token> Time will tell how "symbolic" it will be. To justify huge markup on Pentiums, Intel has cultivated a mass mentality that yells and cream pants when seeing 3-5% performance advantage of one chip over another. With clear Athlon lead in both performance and MHz, all this sick mentality will now fight back, in favor of AMD CPUs.