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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (115264)	6/10/2000 12:32:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571417

Yougang - RE: "Why all of a sudden does AMD handle Duron in such a puzzling fashion?" I checked AMD's press releases from last year, and the Athlon launch was similar. In late June, AMD announced they were shipping the Athlon, but when the Athlon became available for public consumption in August, AMD didn't do another press release for the Athlon, just for the Athlon 650 which was new at the time. In this week's Thunberbird launch, AMD said they had begun shipping Durons, but that is it. AMD may have Durons piled up waiting to be shipped, but there may not be enough motherboards to stick them in. If no Duron systems are announced by July we will know motherboards are the hold back. Lynn Comp still says they expect to get Socket A motherboards late this month.

To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (115264)	6/10/2000 3:30:00 AM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571417

Yougang, Why all of a sudden does AMD handle Duron in such a puzzling fashion? I think we will see a more "official" launch of the Duron later this month. If the launch was really already official, the websites that are currently under NDA to not publish their reviews would probably be able to do so. I think that AMD is not providing benchmarks because the Duron performs too close to the Thunderbird. Once AMD is shipping DDR systems, new Thunderbird benchmarks (using DDR) will be posted along with Duron benchmarks (using SDRAM). That's my WAG, anyway. Pravin.