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To: Elmer who wrote (90471)	1/30/2000 12:05:00 PM
From: niceguy767	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572544

Hi elmer: Once again...I think it did go in one ear and out your other! No need to rush! Current target is 30% marketshare by end of 2001 compared to current 17%...Any inroads into the server/workstation segment during this period are purely additional icing in terms of eps... elmer, you went off in a flap about the Athlon last summer,in retrospect, all for not, now you're getting into a flap about SMP, (all for not, as well?)...Be cool, elmer...There's much time on the side of AMD during which they will no doubt soothe your worried state...Your efforts might be better served by focussing on Intel's very worrisome top end production bottleneck!

To: Elmer who wrote (90471)	1/30/2000 12:24:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 1572544

Re: they have never shipped a P6 generation chipset that didn't support SMP... 440EX? 440ZX? 810 in various versions? That notwithstanding, I am disappointed that AMD may not release a dual processor chipset for awhile. OTOH, if they plan to put 2 cores on a die, or even 2 die in a cartridge, maybe they don't need to. All bus sniffing and cache coherency issues would be addressed above the chipset - am I missing anything here? Tenchusatsu, I see a real opportunity for condescension here :-) There are still no tier 1 business SKUs for AMD, not much point in a dual CPU chipset right now, anyway. Profits and market share gains indicate so far, so good. I am beginning to get a bit suspicious of the lack of business SKUs for Athlon - it seems to be a pretty obvious opportunity. I still have to source PCs from a VAR to get NT on an Athlon system. Intel's strategy seems to be to do whatever it takes to minimize AMD's penetration into the large business market - even though the result appears to be a near abandonment of the retail SOHO market. AMD seems to be satisfied (for now) with the retail and SOHO markets. Perhaps their strategy is get people to use Athlons on their personal systems in the hope that those people will start to demand Athlons at the office - hopeless strategy right? After all, a company called Microsoft tried that route, and aren't they out of business now? <VBG> Dan