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To: Petz who wrote (73469)	9/29/1999 4:35:00 PM
From: Jens M. Ottow	Respond to of 1583870

Some (serious?) info from the raging bull: By: TA152H Reply To: None Wednesday, 29 Sep 1999 at 2:53 PM EDT Post # of 3005 We finally benchmarked the Athlons! The results were so impressive that we are double checking the parameters to ensure everything is accurate. It is thus far the fastest chip we have benchmarked for our apps, although we have not used Alphas which would certainly be faster. The management here is VERY excited by the results. This is all from a 600 MHz chip, not the 650 or 700. I will post more specific results after we have determined that the benchmark was in fact valid. I strongly suspect it was. The chip is really very good at floating point. It will be successful in engineering shops, they speed is needed. It is very likely they will use our site as part of their sales pitch too (we are a Dow 30 company) beyond what we buy there will be additional benefit. Anyone who has not already bought, you should. What solidified it in my mind is watching to high level managers practically jumping up and down when they saw the results we got from the processor. It will sell. Go AMD! Jens

To: Petz who wrote (73469)	9/29/1999 4:42:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583870

Petz, <Intel overstated the problem because the real problem is poor performance and high cost of RIMM's.> Performance isn't a problem, except for the short term. High cost of RIMMs can be a problem, though I'm not sure if the recent hike in DRAM memory prices also affects RDRAM or not. The best outcome I could think of is moving the 820 Camino launch to coincide with the Coppermine launch in late October. Some people will argue that this sort of introduction makes more sense in the first place, considering that even without the Camino delay, many OEMs were waiting for Coppermine before releasing 820-based PCs. Tenchusatsu