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To: Charles R who wrote (68311)	8/10/1999 2:59:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578068

Gateway will come... AMD has the time. Even the Coppafeelmine is no match for the Athlon. Just a matter of motherboards now. I'm still surprised that the Taiwan mobomakers took their time with the Athlon motherboards. I see ALI is making a Athlon chipset. Jim

To: Charles R who wrote (68311)	8/10/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1578068

Thread, Another reactive move forced on Intel because of CuMine delays. zdnet.com I thought Intel would be exposed to faster K6 mobile chips because of CuMine delays but clearly Intel is taking no chances. They are taking the risk of looking stupid for 6 weeks or whatever is the gap between the time they have higher speed Celeron parts and Mobile CuMines, instead of taking the risk of losing sockets to AMDs mobile parts. Makes a mockery out of the segmentation scheme but might help soften the Athlon blow in Q4. Chuck

To: Charles R who wrote (68311)	8/10/1999 3:50:00 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578068

Re: "Gateway and the OEMs who have no loyalty [to AMD]" Maybe Gateway remembers that batch of K6 systems that would not reliably boot Windows.

To: Charles R who wrote (68311)	8/10/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578068

Chuck, Yes, we should wait and see how it plays out. I, for one, will stay in until the second week in September. If things aren't shaping up by then, I'm out. Pravin.

To: Charles R who wrote (68311)	8/10/1999 9:53:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1578068

Re: we should know in a few weeks I think you've really summed up what's going on with those words. These announcements have been extremely encouraging, but they were early. Wasn't Monday's announcement supposed to be at the end of August? With all of the NDA's being ignored, AMD had to do something or by the time of its announcement, the news would have been very stale. And maybe AMD felt it had to do something to keep its creditors happy after the bond rating decrease. But the OEM ship date was moved up to mid August (16th) from the end of August which is a good sign. Given the history of AMD, a lot of people seem to be waiting until they can touch the box befor they will believe all of this (several of them post to this thread from time to time ;-) What I'm enjoying seeing is that Intel, at least, is behaving as though it is absolutely certain that the Athlon will be a success. Dan