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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (77443)	10/27/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: Yougang Xiao	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573558

<<That's why I have a tough time seeing how this Gamebox can be considered a good thing for AMD, at least in practice.>> A 400 MHZ CPU was priced around $480 a year ago, and sold for &40 today. The price point that AMD sells to MSFT will be at least 2 quarters away (not including the current quarter). The price of Athlon will decline substantially in this timeframe anyway. Anyone know what the rough mhz the chip runs playstation II vs. that of Athlon? If Athlon 600 Mhz delivers comparable performance to playstation II, then, $50-60 for athlon 600 3 quarters from now may not be a bad deal for AMD at all.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (77443)	10/27/1999 7:53:00 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573558

Tenchusatsu, re:<AMD will have to sell Athlons to MS at rock-bottom prices. ... ... "AMD will make up for the losses with sales of high-end Athlon Ultra," ...> Why does it have to be Athlon Ultra? There was no reference to the use of Athlon Ultra in MS announcement! The MS game-box is a user non-modifiable(features and basic components) unit, that would give them umpteen possibilities to cut costs. EX: they don't need to use the Athlon in the cartridge form. They can have it soldered directly to the pc board saving cost of sockets and the Athlon Module. They can have the memory chips directly soldered onto the board eliminating mfg costs of DIMM and cost of DIMM sockets. The PC board itself can be a several times smaller than a typical PC ATX boards. Also, I could be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that actual mfg cost of the Sony Playstation II is going to be about $570, but they are going to sell it for $300 - $350. Regards, Goutama