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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (102298)	4/5/2000 3:13:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1577843

Jim, <<If those benchmarks are correct then why would AMD attempt anything but a co-release of Spitfire and thunderchicken? Spitfire would blow the current Athlon out of the water...>> The previous info from this source on spitfire also had some gaming benchmarks, and it beat Athlon in everything. You are right, releasing it before T-Bird would lower AMD's ASP because sales of the regular Athy would dry up. Fortunately, it looks like Intel's higher speed Celeron release was another "stealth event," so if AMD waits until June for Spitfire, they won't lose too many sales in the low end anyway. The socket infrstructure had better be ready by then, however. Petz