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To: Elmer who wrote (66803)	7/28/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578124

Elmer - RE: "Getting worried" Not as much as YOU! "Intel makes $$Billions$$ even with those product slips." But consider how much more they could have made if they were released on time. "Intel will ship >600MHz processors long before AMD makes a profit." Before AMD makes a profit - and that is something to brag about? Show me something new. Intel was supposed to have >600MHz chips on Oct. 24. Why don't you brag about that? While you are at it, brag about the Camino DELAY, RamBUST DRDRAM DELAY, desktop CI-have-a-slow-FPUmine DELAY, and Profusion DELAY. I would love to hear it!

To: Elmer who wrote (66803)	7/28/1999 3:52:00 PM
From: RDM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578124

Benchmarks are coming, Benchmarks are coming! Key testing results for AMD's Athlon due soon By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com news.com July 28, 1999, 12:05 p.m. PT For chipmaker AMD, the rubber will start to meet the road on August 9 when some key testing results for the new high-end Athlon processor are made public. The results, called benchmarks, are a standardized set of tests that are used to compare performance of different electronic components such as processors. Quote Snapshot July 28, 1999, 12:25 p.m. PT Advanced Micro Devices AMD 16.6875 +0.1250 +0.75% by symbol by name More from CNET Investor Quotes delayed 20+ minutes Early next month, AMD said it will allow publications and analysts to first start discussing publicly the benchmarks surrounding the Athlon--formerly called the K7 processor. The event will likely be closely watched, because nearly every analyst contacted by CNET News.com has said informally that the Athlon, which AMD is banking on mightily, will outperform Intel's high-end Pentium III at the same speed. By offering a better performing chip at a lower cost, AMD is hoping to break out of its niche as supplier for the low end of the PC market and into more profitable market segments. Computers based around Athlon will start coming out in mid-August, said Ben Anixter, an AMD spokesman, at the BancBoston Robertson-Stephens semiconductor conference in San Francisco this morning. The new chip will run at 550 MHz and 600 MHz at its debut and move up to 650 MHz later in the third quarter of this year. A 700-MHz version will come out in the fourth quarter, he said. Copper-based Athlon chips, along with two-and four-processor Athlon-based workstations, will then begin to appear in early 2000, Anixter added. Anixter's presentation strongly indicated that AMD will attack Intel and the Pentium III on a variety of fronts. Flashing a slide of benchmark results, AMD showed the Athlon beating the Pentium III on a wide variety of applications, including commercial applications such as Adobe's PhotoShop and Autodesk's AutoCad. Some PC makers have already chosen the chip for use in high-end PCs, a process AMD would like to accelerate and broaden. "At the present, we are relegated to the low end. We must play across the board," he said. Interestingly, workstations could be the place where Athlon begins to emerge in commercial spaces. "This is where you have the least of the 'IBM problem,'" he said. That is, a focus on brand name over performance. "Performance is in some cases 50 to 100 percent higher" with Athlon. Getting to greater commercial acceptance, however, won't be easy. While analysts have praised the chip, they also state that AMD has an extremely uneven record when it comes to manufacturing