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To: Petz who wrote (78543)	11/3/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1577381

RE <<With this intro, VIA does not have to court Intel to sell their chipsets -- they'll have plenty of business powering their own CPU's.>> Petz, I missed that but I am not surprised. Via is determined to get out from under intc's control. It looks like every time intc has them cornered, they make another move away. Its interesting to watch and helps to keep intc off AMD's back. ted

To: Petz who wrote (78543)	11/3/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577381

Petz, <did you see in the CNet article that VIA is introducing Celeron-compatible CPU's in two weeks (Comdex). No doubt, they'll have some 100-bus and 133-bus models also. Intel Celerons are all 66 MHz bus and their intention was to keep it that way until January. With this intro, VIA does not have to court Intel to sell their chipsets -- they'll have plenty of business powering their own CPU's.> The Cyrix guys screwed up big time. If this chip had shipped on time (expected to be Q3 when the acquisition started), VIA could have made a killing - especially given the strong chipset story. Now it is coming a little late to make much of an impact on Q4. VIA confirmed that they are moving processor production to TSMC as suspected so that should help them keep their costs and get better speed grades than what they would have gotten at National. If VIA can get a decent job on the chips next year then Intel has the most to lose because of socket 370 compatibility. Chuck

To: Petz who wrote (78543)	11/3/1999 9:41:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1577381

RE:"ed, did you see in the CNet article that VIA is introducing Celeron-compatible CPU's in two weeks (Comdex)." I believe these are Cyrix chips on socket 370. I saw the motherboard for these chips back in May. They are supposed to run 500MHZ...but I'm not sure if this is a real 500MHZ or a PR rating... If it's an actual 500MHZ then it would have a pretty impressive PR rating... Jim