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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (82423)	12/9/1999 12:27:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572921

Chuckles - Re: "Why not check with the folks who told you the contamination story in the first place and see if there is any more potential bad news out there? " Good idea. Paul

To: Charles R who wrote (82423)	12/9/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: Scot	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572921

Charles and Thread, Sharky weekly cpu prices: sharkyextreme.com In summary on Athlon changes, no movement on the 700, one dollar change on the 650, 17 dollars on the 600, and two and seven dollars on the 550 and 500, respectively. Comments from "Mako" (see his comments on Dresden): Recent conversations we've had with multiple sources close to AMD have indicated that an 800MHz .18 micron Athlon is ready and waiting to swoop down into OEM system integrator channels the moment AMD management and their business partners decide that it makes economic sense to do so. It seems that .18 micron production yield levels from AMD's Austin Texas "Superfab" are quite good, possibly even better than expected, and AMD is loading the chambers of their 6-shooter as fast as possible with faster Athlon models to prepare for a looming MHz gunfight with rival Intel in the first six months of next year. We've also heard rumors that until pricing comes down on very fast L2 cache SRAM chips that near-future models of the Athlon might be forced to continue utilizing slower L2 cache that runs below 50% of the CPU's core speed, as is the case with the new Athlon 750. Luckily the Athlon's Floating Point Unit is largely unaffected by this decision in terms of a possible performance penalty, so gamers looking for high frame rates likely won't experience a hit to their bottom line beyond two to three percent versus what a true blue 50% L2 cache equipped Athlon would have produced. Hopefully the second generation Athlon core that offers integrated L2 cache will appear soon, so the entire L2 cache problem can be rendered moot. Right now the AMD timetable states that Q2/2000 is the target for such an event to occur, but with all the good things we're hearing about AMD's new Dresden Germany fab, that date could possibly be advanced. Pentium III Coppermine: Stock Issues Certain CPU resellers have been in contact with Sharky Extreme this past week to let us know that supply at the higher end of the P3 Coppermine lineup is going to be short over the next three to four weeks. The P3-667, 700, and 733 models are in high demand currently, hence we're seeing some cries of shortage coming from even the larger resellers like UpgradeSource.com. Our advice to readers who can't wait until the new year for their desired CPU is to simply go up and down through the multiple vendors we list each week on the pricing list to see if they've got the model you're looking for. Odds are one of them will, as most of them are good-sized in terms of inventory and buying power. If they're all out of stock, then it's likely there is indeed a tight supply of chips coming from Intel, which is surprising considering that they've dedicated four of their fabrication plants to the .18 micron process launch. On a final note, prices throughout AMD and Intel's lines are expected to fall again over the next two weeks, which will hopefully bring the current highest end CPUs from both AMD and Intel into price ranges that the masses can better afford before the end of the year.