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

To: niceguy767 who wrote (83935)	12/22/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 1572102

Niceguy, <What was your point?> What was my point? Well, now that I think about it, I might have to slightly alter my viewpoint. My original point was that in light of the whole picture, AMD's 800K Athlons (or 1.2M, for those of you who want to jump on me again on nitpicky details) still make up a rather small percentage of the total market for desktop processors, compared to the 25M or so processors that Intel ships per quarter. My new point is that most of those 800K (or 1.2M) Athlons are in the high-end. And even a small presence like that is creating a lot of high-end demand since the MHz envelope has now been pushed further out. So Intel in its paranoia has to pull in schedules and ramp Coppermine speeds and unit production faster than expected thanks to AMD's token presence in the high-end. And now even the marketing guys at Intel feel compelled to make AMD-style "phantom releases." So are there production problems at Intel? Hardly. In fact, Intel is exceeding all of their original goals. Unfortunately, Intel isn't exceeding the market's expectations which have been "inflated" (for lack of a better term) by AMD's Athlon. And that's what counts. Tenchusatsu P.S. - As a consumer, I'm licking my chops at the thought of upgrading to a 550 MHz Pentium III really soon for $200. Thanks to the competition, we'll get there a lot sooner than before.