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To: fyo who wrote (63525)	6/27/1999 11:14:00 AM
From: grok	Respond to of 1584160

RE: <This lawsuit pertains to VIA's 'P6 chipsets' (i.e. for Celeron, PII and PIII) only. It has nothing whatsoever to do with AMD or K7/Athlon chipsets. Not directly, anyway. --fyodor> Ya, but it has a lot to do with AMD indirectly. As we see from other posts it looks like Intel has a price advantage in MBs and part of this would be due to chip sets. Intel has huge economies of scale on these and we saw that they used this against AMD with Celeron in Q2. If Intel can wipe out the 3rd party chip set makers it will put a huge burden on AMD to provide the entire infrastructure themselves.

To: fyo who wrote (63525)	6/27/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1584160

fyo, From all the flap about 133 MHZ I expect they have some application to the K7 in some architectural way. Anyone know for sure? It is hard to see why Intel would make all the aggro over a mature and fading product. I expect they were expecting Rambus to be ready along with their latest chips to meet K7 head on. Now this is not the case they are into a fire fighting mission to close the Via door on any chip sets that may find use in the K7, to make AMD provide all the infrastructure. Bill