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To: pompsander who wrote (40976)	4/26/2000 7:17:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Pomp, price war It isn't going to happen. Intel is not going to soil their own bed. In the past, Intel has cut prices at the low end, but this time it would do them no good (becuse AMD won't be selling CPU's that slow.). Scumbria

To: pompsander who wrote (40976)	4/26/2000 7:25:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

Pomp, This article has already been posted, but I missed the paragraph at the end. In 12 months 1.2GHz and 1.4GHz will mean nothing (except as rating for Celeron speeds) <g>: --------------- RDRAM-Based Systems Win Industry Standard Benchmark Tests; Rambus Memory Delivers Highest Bandwidth and Performance for GHz Processors. Business Wire, April 24, 2000 p0510 Full Text ... "According to PC World Magazine, 'CPUs took almost 20 years to hit 500 MHz, but they took just eight months to zip from 600 MHz to 1 GHz'. As a result, the memory subsystem bandwidth requirements will more than double, limiting memory choices," said Avo Kanadjian, vice president, Worldwide Marketing at Rambus Inc. "Rambus memory delivers the highest performance and bandwidth available today allowing systems to take advantage of their full processor and graphics potential with added headroom for the future." For more information on the benchmarks referenced in this release, visit the Rambus web site for links at www.rambus.com/general/industry_talk.html. Dave

To: pompsander who wrote (40976)	4/26/2000 8:09:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

Pomp, Re: price declines. Not sure where the drops come from, but I rechecked the prices on the Dell systems that I posted in message 40400 (on 4/19, seven days ago). Here's an update: Before Now Decline % Decline B Series $2607 $2447 $160 6.1% T Series $2327 $2207 $120 5.2% Delta between RDRAM/SDRAM Systems $280 $240 % Incr. Cost of RDRAM System 12.0% 10.8% The trend is your friend. Dave p.s. Again, the B Series has a 733Mhz processor versus a 700Mhz one for the T Series. That's probably good for $10 of the delta.