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To: Petz who wrote (85633)	1/6/2000 5:35:00 PM
From: ajbrenner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Gateway throwing Intel under the bus on CNBC now CNBC said possibly as soon as next week for AMD announcement. CPQ & DELL won't be affected as much as Gateway by Intel chip shortage because they are less dependent on Intel chips. Oh well, half right is pretty good for the talking heads at CNBC. ajb

To: Petz who wrote (85633)	1/6/2000 5:57:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573092

Jim, I guess you should forgive Linley Gwennap for stealing your "MHz sell(s)." It was his swan song: Being a Speed Demon doesn't solve everything. For applications larger than the meager SPECint95, designers must supply adequate memory bandwidth to keep up with the fast CPU core. Speed Demons also burn more power, a problem in mobile systems. But being fast has another advantage: megahertz sell. Over the next few years, the performance battles will be as fierce as ever, pitting Intel against a newly reinvigorated AMD and IA-64 against a plethora of RISC server processors. I've been honored to be your commentator for the past seven years, but now it's time to sign off. In the immortal words of Douglas Adams: So long, and thanks for all the fish. -- Linley Gwennap Petz