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To: Charles R who wrote (89749)	1/26/2000 2:57:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572004

Chuck, Jerry says a lot of things. His words are so duplicitous that I can never tell what's really going on behind the scenes at AMD. At least when Intel is being vague, everyone knows it and takes it for what its worth. I'm very sure that AMD has parts above 900 MHz. So what? Intel will soon be demonstrating a room-temp 1 GHz processor. As for the "wide availability" of Athlon 800s, I sure don't see too many of them, though I wasn't really searching that hard. Jerry said that 850s are being "widely sampled"? That's fine by me; I'm sure Intel is "widely sampling" beyond 800 MHz as well. Finally, I'm sure AMD has a very credible roadmap that is as good as Intel's, at least for the year 2000. Thunderbird, Spitfire, and Mustang are going to be very strong products for AMD. It's these new cores that makes AMD attractive to Gateway, not some rumors of a stupid cat-n-mouse game with Intel. If AMD has the chance to blow past Intel in the MHz race right now, they would and they should. As MPR puts it, "Room is not something that one should leave for Intel." AMD should give up this cat-n-mouse game and become the undisputed leader in MHz. Why aren't they doing that? It's because they can't. Tenchusatsu