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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (24456)	7/9/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

<tench, that is not what i asked for. pii is now a lower end chip (sub $1k) please lump it with celeron and compare piii to that.> Slicing hairs, are we? Did you know that the vast majority of Pentium II sales are 450 MHz, and that Pentium II 450 and Pentium III 450 are the same price ($250)? In other words, there aren't very many Pentium II's that are sold below 450 MHz anymore. Celeron has already taken over that area. That's why it doesn't make any sense to lump Pentium II with Celeron, because most of the Pentium II's sold are the same price as Pentium III 450 MHz. <we will add in the low end amd chips and you will see that piii is a very small chunk of the pie.> AMD only sold about 3.8 million chips last quarter, even though they made 6 million. Demand wasn't there for AMD chips. (Makes you wonder whether the sub-$1000 market is indeed growing as fast as you think.) OK, if we split things out a little more, then we'll create three categories: 1) Low-end: Celeron, Pentium II (400 MHz and below), AMD K6-x, Cyrix: 16 million 2) Mid-range: Pentium III, Pentium II (450 MHz): 12.5 million 3) High-end: Pentium II/III Xeon: 1.25 million Seems like Pentium III is still a large chunk of the pie. I hope you get the point. Tenchusatsu