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To: Scumbria who wrote (96240)	3/2/2000 2:23:00 AM
From: ptanner	Respond to of 1571561

Scumbria <I have no doubt that a few systems will appear shortly, and will immediately become collector's items.> Seeing 1 GHz from AMD soon would be nice. I just hope AMD has the product in volume and the potentially lower cache speed ratio doesn't significantly impair performance. Of course, the first focus for buyers will be: 1 GHz! And it has the potential to be, yet again, the fastest processor that you can actually purchase. Have SRAM speeds progressed as well as MPUs? I bet both INTC & AMD can charge a little premium for 1 GHz as this is a nice trophy opportunity. And with a premium price, they may be able to keep demand at levels that can be satisfied while earning some excellent margins. I hope AMD continues to try and establish itself as making goals and beating them -- shake off their old reputation of promising wonders to come. AMD needs to satisfy all the demands they create and demonstrate the ability to satisfy extra orders to continue their market share expansion. No vapor launches! AMD has already dropped two (maybe three) speed grades of the Athlon -- they should get some marketing exposure out of this by highlighting the effectiveness of their process: "We don't sell the slow ones because ours are all fast!" rather than just dropping them from the price list. PT