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To: Petz who wrote (86712)	1/12/2000 8:08:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1572753

Re: the price gap between the 650... Reports from the overclocker sites say that when the cartridges are opened up, all current production is 650 or higher - everything else was downbinned. So AMD may figure that if it can get people to move up to a 650, even if it's only a few dollars more than a 550 or 600, AMD is ahead. It also puts pressure on Intel - returning the favor of making the K6's sweet spot a low margin part. Coppermine seems to have a sweet spot close to Athlon, but Intel is still running lots of .25 PIIIs as their conversion from .25 to .18 continues. Current Athlon pricing may convert PIII's slower than 650 into Celeron/K6s as far as purchasers are concerned. It could make it harder for Intel to cut Celeron much more and protects the K6 margins. Remember that press release from AMD about the voltage increase? It didn't say that the .1 volt increase let them run Athlon at 800, it said the .1 volt increase let every Athlon run at least 800MHZ. Should be an interesting next few months. Dan