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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (69334)	8/20/1999 12:58:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1572942

YX, <###Intel is the reason for Athlon MOBO shortage### www6.tomshardware.com; Intel is known for playing dirty and they may have contributed to the motherboard delays - but that is what competition is now-a-days. AMD had Athlons in June and it is September by the time motherboards appear in volumes. Even assuming Intel is THE reason, don't you think AMD should have seeded the motherboard market, especially given the problems they had with K6 motherboards and Intel's reputation for playing dirty? I wonder if Tom is championing a lost cause - i.e. motherboard supplies are ramping as we speak with or without ASUS and the launch delays due to motherboard shortage have already occurred - whatever damage is done is done. With the current motherboard supplier line up, I would be surprised if motherboards are the bottleneck in Q4. Other than creating some bad/good PR for Intel/AMD and put Intel on the spot, I am not sure if this has helped K7 launch in any meaningful way. Chuck

To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (69334)	8/20/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572942

I think Tom is full of it once again. In those e-mail updates, there have been NO MENTION of Intel anywhere, yet Tom is again drawing false assumptions. So there's a motherboard shortage. Nothing unusual; Intel has its own shortage of BX and ZX chipsets. In fact, during all those wonderful presentations of Athlon, even Dirk Meyer wasn't so sure about motherboard supply once Athlon hit the market. What did people expect? That motherboard makers will be more than willing to jump onto the Athlon bandwagon, even though AMD has a history of execution problems? (Case in point: AMD used smoke-and-mirrors to hide a two month delay from June to August.) I think people ought to give up on these dumb conspiracy theories. Tenchusatsu