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To: tejek who wrote (77300)	10/27/1999 1:44:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573092

Re: "Only intc is stupid enough to want market share that badly." Ahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!! Good one Ted!!!! EP

To: tejek who wrote (77300)	10/27/1999 2:35:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

Tejerk - Re: "What you are saying is that AMD will have to start discounting the Athlon like intc is having to do with its chips...I DON'T THIIIINK SO!! Only intc is stupid enough to want market share that badly." Oh yeah ? Then why did AMD SLASH AThWIPE prices yesterday - following the Coppermine introduction ? "Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has dropped prices on its flagship Athlon processor by as much as 18 percent. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker wasted no time in responding to arch-rival Intel Corp.'s (INTC) Pentium III chip launch on Monday and corresponding price reductions." Paul {==================================} AMD cuts Athlon prices up to 18 percent By John G. Spooner, ZDNN October 26, 1999 10:10 AM PT URL: zdnet.com Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has dropped prices on its flagship Athlon processor by as much as 18 percent. The Sunnyvale, Calif., chip maker wasted no time in responding to arch-rival Intel Corp.'s (INTC) Pentium III chip launch on Monday and corresponding price reductions. b>For customers, AMD's (AMD) price cuts make the Athlon chip somewhat more affordable than Intel's (INTC) latest Pentium III chips, running at the same clock speed. AMD's largest reduction came on the 700MHz Athlon, whose price was slashed 18 percent from $849 to $699. AMD's 650MHz Athlon was reduced from $615 to $519, a 16 price cut, company officials said. Smaller cuts were made on 600MHz and 550MHz Athlon chips. The Athlon 600 fell from $449 to $419, a 7 percent reduction. The price of an Athlon 550 was cut by 8 percent, from $304 to $279. AMD held the price of the 500MHz Athlon steady at $209. These prices are for smaller quantities of 1,000 units or more, the officials said. Athlon cheaper than PIII Intel on Monday introduced 15 Pentium III chips for desktops, notebooks, workstations and servers, including nine desktop Pentium III chips. Pricing on those chips ranges from $239 for the 500MHz Pentium III (designated with an E to distinguish it from the existing 500MHz Pentium III) to $776 for the 733MHz Pentium III. By way of comparison, the 700MHz Athlon's new $699 price makes it $55 cheaper than Intel's 700MHz Pentium III, which is priced at $754. The 650MHz Athlon, at $519, is $64 cheaper than Intel's $583 650MHz Pentium III. Intel's latest Pentium IIIs, code-named Coppermine, are based on a 0.18 micron manufacturing process. To make way for those chips, Intel cut prices on existing Pentium IIIs, which are based on a .25 micron manufacturing process. Among those price cuts, the largest was on the 600MHz Pentium III, which was reduced by 24 percent, from $615 to $465. The 550MHz Pentium III fell from $423 to $348, an 18 percent drop. Intel's 533MHz Pentium III was lowered by 14 percent, from $369 to $316. Intel's 500MHz and 450MHz Pentium III chips were reduced by 9 percent and 6 percent to $229 and $173, respectively. Intel also reduced the prices of its 450MHz Pentium II desktop by $10, to $173, a 6 percent drop. Desktop Celeron chip prices were reduced by between 5 and 8 percent. The largest cut came on the 433MHz Celeron, which was reduced by $6, to $73, an 8 percent cut. The Athlon chip, which is supported by the AMD 750 chip set's 200MHz system bus, is available in desktops such as the Presario 5900Z from Compaq Computer Corp. and IBM's Aptiva S800 series.