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To: Process Boy who wrote (88708)	9/23/1999 2:33:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

PB, Re: I now pay $32/Mo. to GTE for 768kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream, +ISP charge of $17 for unlimited usage A little north to you, I now pay CAD40/Mo flat for 1.5M/512k ADSL. I am thinking about hooking another NIC and have my server connect to Cable as well as ADSL at the same time all for just CAD80. That is real cheap :-) Gary

To: Process Boy who wrote (88708)	9/23/1999 4:57:00 AM
From: Amy J	Respond to of 186894

By George Hulme: "Don't expect higher-end processor prices to drop drastically anytime soon, though." "In related CPU news, Cyrix Corp. plans to replace its aging M II processor this fall with a chip code-named Gobi." ---------------------------------------------------------------- HOW LOW CAN THEY GO? -- CPU Vendors Feel Price Pressure By George Hulme CMP Media Inc. From varbusiness.com via newswedge.com September 23, 1999 VARBUSINESS via NewsEdge Corporation : It wasn't long ago that chip announcements came about every 18 months, and price drops predictably followed. Those days are long gone-new announcements and price drops have reached a frenzied pace. Most recently, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) slashed prices for a number of its K6-2 and K6-III CPUs. The largest drop occurred with AMD's K6-2 475-MHz chip, which slipped from $152 to $114 each in quan-tities of 1,000. The new price tag for the company's K6-2 450-MHz is $93, previously priced at $112. The K6-2 400-MHz received the most modest cut, 11 percent, to $73 from $82. Don't expect higher-end processor prices to drop drastically anytime soon, though. AMD and Intel Corp. are firm on their pricing for 500-MHz processors. Both Intel's 500-MHz Celeron chip and AMD's K-2 500-MHz chips are still $167 each in lots of 1,000. In related CPU news, Cyrix Corp. plans to replace its aging M II processor this fall with a chip code-named Gobi. This new chip will sport faster MMX and floating-point units, 3DNow! instructions and 256 KB of L2 cache. Gobi will be the first chip (other than Intel) to use the P6 bus and plug into a Celeron socket.