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To: Charles R who wrote (82566)	12/9/1999 11:39:00 PM
From: THE WATSONYOUTH	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572190

Re: "If this hypothesis of barely 1GHz holds, AMD could have a leg up of 200-400MHz before Intel's 0.13 kicks in. If AMD has the wherewithal to exploit this there will be a lot of happy folks on this thread." Intel will demo a 1GHz IA-32 room temp processor at ISSCC in Feb. This is no rumor. I have yet to see proof of 1GHz Athlons - little alone 1.4GHz. If it is generally believed that Willamette could be ready by Oct 2000, what is AMD waiting for? That's less than 10 months away. Why only 750MHz as the initial .18um release? Why only a rumored speed bump to 800MHz? If the consumer will not buy 800MHz processors now, why will they buy 1.2GHz processors 4 months from now??? I admit I don't fully understand the marketing issues on these releases. But, maybe the real reason is that neither company can get much past 1GHz and this race will be a lot closer than previously thought. just my take, THE WATSONYOUTH