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To: Road Walker who wrote (86780)	1/12/2000 10:23:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1573921

John - RE: "AMD & Athlon is well represented at retail, Joe Sixpack know that it's a great product, it's all the techs will buy. So what percentage of unit volume does AMD enjoy? Why?" John, the AThlon just came out. It isn't going to just make it to store shelves and automatically take a huge chunk of the pie. Even the K6-2 took a few of months to get going. Also, AMD only made 1M of them this Q. That's not enough to make a big puddle compared to Intel's overall 30+M. If six months from now the AThlon sales suck you will have very valid point, but it is to early to gauge right now. BTW, thanks for getting a discussion going.

To: Road Walker who wrote (86780)	1/12/2000 11:54:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573921

John, Well with a ramp up from zero to a million or more in a few months it certainly is doing better than it's comparable Intel competitor. The exact figures will come out one day. It looks like it will make 3 million this quarter. Sure Intel is bigger, and AMD is a pinprick beside it, but many a ballon has feared a pinprick and rightly so. We are seeing the beginning of the end of the Intel era. It will take a while, but things will never be the same again for Intel Bill