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To: Elmer who wrote (94874)	2/24/2000 8:28:00 AM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580034

Elmer Re...<<<AMD had their chance to "trump" Intel when Intel demoed Willamette at a far higher speed than AMD's demo. It was expected that AMD was holding back, waiting for Intel to show their best and then AMD would embarrass Intel with a higher speed part. Well it was put up or shut up time for AMD and AMD didn't put up.>>>>>>>>> Elmer , Who trumped who here. AMD showed a 1.1 ghz chip running on regular memory, which I assume will sell for approximately $1500 for chip and memory.(256 m) Willy will use expensive Rambus memory for a chip and memory cost of approximately $3000. Maybe you haven't heard but only 5% of computer buyers buy high end machines. What is Intel going to do? ?Concede the other 95% of the market. It has already been announced that coppermine wasn't going to be sold over 1 ghz. and there will be a vast area between coppermine and willy. Do you really think Intel can sell Willy at 1.1 ghz for $3000 with memory against Athlon at $1500 and still keep market share. And even if Intel could sell it where on earth would Intel get the memory when only 5% of memory made is Rambus. Thanks for the advice Elmer but for now I think I will keep my money on AMD.