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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (90119)	1/27/2000 9:17:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570547

Bill, Dell won't go with Athlon, period IMHO. They are more of a marketing and distribution outfit than a real engineering powerhouse (and they have executed this in an outstanding fashion). Supporting AThlon will require a completely different infrastructure. I bet they and GTW later may look at VIA. Those chips are due to be plug in replacements on same MB's. And I bet VIA will bend over just to get the account whereas I doubt if AMD will do that. I see y2K as a real BOOM year if US bIZ really picks up. It seems to me that almost every PC's have a half-life of 2yrs. By year end lots of low end 166-266 Machines will be loking to replaced - likely by a real cheap 600-800Mhz box. regards, Kash