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To: Paul Engel who wrote (69904)	8/25/1999 10:36:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572938

Re: Intel DID NOT REDUCE THE PRICE OF THEIR TOP CHIP Well of course not, it's all they've got. They have to try to at least present the appearance of being able to compete with AMD :-) Besides, with 600MHZ being such a stretch for the Intel .25 process, they can't have more than a handful to sell. Did you see Tom's article about how easy it is to overclock the .25 Athlon to 750MHZ? And how stable it was at that speed? August 27 for the .18 667 and 700 coppermines? Better hurry up, they're needed now! And then up to 800 to 900 by the end of the year, but that's looking like pretty much it for quite awhile. AMD has .18 aluminum for Q4, that should be good for at least a 100MHZ over coppermine. Meanwhile, with that much headroom on the Athlon on .25 aluminum, the .18 copper here for the spring should complete the transition of Intel to "your networking products company". Dan

To: Paul Engel who wrote (69904)	8/26/1999 1:09:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572938

Paul, re: lack of price reduction on Intel 600 MHz. As usual for you, a tangential point. My main point is that even non-technical talk radio hosts know that AMD has the fastest available chips. BTW, the reason Intel did not reduce their 600 MHz is because they are yielding so few of them that they will sell them all anyway. Tomshardware reported that NONE of his 600 MHz PIII chips would run more than half a day at 650 MHz and only one of them could pass Winbench even once. This means that under spec level conditions (voltage 0.05 below spec and maximum temperature), they are barely making the 600 MHz grade). Petz