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To: Goutam who wrote (112617)	5/25/2000 5:16:00 AM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571167

How the hell The Register comes up with all this information ahead of others? Nice one from The Register on AMD's Thunderbird Prices - __________________________________________________________ theregister.co.uk Posted 25/05/2000 9:01am by Mike Magee AMD's Thunderbird prices are go...nearly Chip firm AMD is still clouding the introduction of its Thunderbird Athlons in some mystery, but although it wants to prevent the likes of us from finding out details, it has to tell its customers what the hell is going on. So this is what the hell is going on. Somewhat tentative OEM prices for the Thunderbirds, which will keep the Athlon name, still point to June 12th being the launch date. The price of the T-Bird 1100MHz processor is being withheld even from many customers, as AMD wants to keep its powder dry in its continuing fight against Intel. The 800MHz T-bird is $250, the 850MHz $330, the 900MHz $450, the 950MHz $605, and the 1GHz T'Bird is $850. These are OEM prices. What else do we know about AMD, which is fast becoming more secretive than Chipzilla ever was? There are big announcements on the 5th of June, and journalists, in Europe at least, are being flown to Dresden. There's also an announcement on the same day in Taipei, round about the time our Cathay Pacific plane touches down. On the KZ133 front, Gigabyte, Microstar and Biostar are likely to be first out of the starting gates. Except we have now had it confirmed from a source within Via that the KZ moniker has now changed to KT. This is because KZ has an unfortunate connotation in Germany, being the initials for concentration camp. Although the change will involve some cost to Via in terms of data sheets and the like, we are informed the firm felt this was the right thing to do. And according to other, reliable reports, there isn't any clock locking on Socket A. Both engineering samples and production units are not clock locked. Spitfire (Duron) has a lower core voltage than the T'Bird Athlon, and power consumption is very high indeed. And apparently the heatsinks are absolutely massive... ____________________________________________________________

To: Goutam who wrote (112617)	5/25/2000 11:45:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1571167

Goutama, <You pretty much included all the big events that are in the pipe> Actually, I remembered something pretty big - analyst upgrades. That's one of the big differences between AMD and Intel over the last few days. Everytime Intel falls a little there is an analyst or two who reiterates a "buy" and there has been no such activity for AMD. That should change in the coming weeks. Chuck P.S.: I-watch shows there was (were) some big seller(s) of AMD this morning. It will be interesting to see if there some more weak hands out there.