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To: kash johal who wrote (98037)	3/11/2000 4:43:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1570880

Kash, I am not so sure it is over totally. I feel MSFT has to have an alternate source just in case Intel screws up so they will have time to ramp AMD before a certain timetable. Now the P-III is a capable chip, but if the Athlon with cache on dies comes along and is significantly better they may well back into some business. It makes sense for MSFT to do this as the case can be made to fit both parts and all the other parts will be 100% compatible. Since both parts will be socket based all that will be needed is another mobo for the Athlon with the same screwholes....this can also be true for an rambus based design as the board from Intel may well be. Is AMD capable of fabbing rambus parts? os the tech needed an exclusive arena of the main memory makers? MSFT has a lock on them as no-one else will have a stripped down win2k to run them, but it is quite possible for there to be several mobo makers with AMD, Intel, and even Via parts. I am sure MSFT will try to keep other players in there if only to hammer Intel with. Bill