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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (97682)	3/9/2000 7:09:00 PM
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Bill and Thread: Redherring article (there is much to disagree with...): redherring.com HAUNTED BY THE PAST It will take corporate IT managers a while to forget AMD's past, says Wit Soundview's Mr. Randall. "Corporate IT departments don't want to be the one to end up with a problematic set of users because they tried to save a buck using an AMD product," he says. It will, at the very least, take AMD 12 to 18 months of flawless production and product delivery before corporate IT managers take another look [at AMD], says Mr. Randall. Mercury's Mr. Feibus explains that one of several problems with AMD's K-6 product was that it was being pushed to deliver clock-speeds it wasn't designed to produce, resulting in an unreliable product. "Today, though, AMD is starting out with a chip designed for high clock rates," he notes. AMD says it has already committed to orders from its flagship customers, Compaq Computer (NYSE: CPQ) and Gateway (NYSE: GTW). The chip will also reportedly be the CPU of the prototype of the new X-Box gaming console that Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) will unveil this Friday. PCs including AMD's new chip will cost more than $3,000. The new Athlon will be generally available to other PC makers in April.