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To: Paul Engel who wrote (72097)	9/17/1999 3:10:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573682

Paul - RE: "Yes - that seems to be so - if you're lucky enough to find one of these Endangered Athlon Species to test !" This ain't the K6-III, you can purhcase a system from Best Buy and take it home the day you buy it. "Intel's manufacturing STRENGTH will go a long way to help the situation." We were strictly talking about performance. But yes, manufacturing is an Advantage: Intel. "I wouldn't count on getting one of these in my Christmas stocking if I were you. VIA seems much more occupied with buying AMD's competitors than building chip sets to HELP AMD." Yeah, that could happen. But no matter how you look at it, the Athlon's performance is only going to get better. Once the PIII gets its extra cache, Intel will have no way to improve on the platform, they are already at the top of the mountain. AMD is just beginning the journey. (Apply any stock jokes you want.)

To: Paul Engel who wrote (72097)	9/17/1999 7:01:00 AM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573682

Hello Paul, Glad to see you are feeling a little better. re:"Intel's manufacturing STRENGTH will go a long way to help the situation" You know, I never thought of that, since AMD was licensed by Intel to help it produce some processors long ago, and Intel doesn't have the fastest processor, maybe AMD could use some help in producing "THE FASTEST PC PROCESSOR IN THE WORLD" That way they could at least keep the workers busy, while the engineers figure out what in the world went wrong with the 820 chipset and RAMBUST. (and DELL too) What do you think? And try not to worry too much about Intel today Paul. $80 may hold on support, it bounced pretty good yesterday. Have a good day Paul, ok? steve

To: Paul Engel who wrote (72097)	9/17/1999 1:41:00 PM
From: Allen champ	Respond to of 1573682

Posted 17/09/99 4:34pm by Mike Magee (The Register) AMD takeover rumours re-emerge Rumours are circulating in Germany that AMD may be snapped up by giant conglomerate Siemens. But AMD has said "it has no knowledge of such a move" and we think it's highly unlikely too. According to the speculation, Siemens is preparing to offer as much as $40 a share for AMD stock. That is double its current share value on the New York trading floors. We think this has to stay at the level of pure speculation. Reports have been surfacing over the last few days that its financial position is better this quarter than it was, but it is hard to see what Siemens would get out of the deal. The speculation may have been started by traders anxious to boost AMD's share price, which has only fluctuated a matter of a few dollars in the last six weeks or so.