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To: Tony Viola who wrote (106321)	7/29/2000 3:35:33 PM
From: JDN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Tony: I agree, I would like to ask a question to this thread. First off, I suspect that many of the people on this thread have not only the financial ability to pretty much own whatever computer they want but the technical knowledge to take advantage of whatever power is necessary for their needs. So here is my question? How many people own a system of 933mhz or faster? Show of hands. JDN

To: Tony Viola who wrote (106321)	7/29/2000 7:52:37 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 186894

Tony - RE: "That makes numbers like 1,000, 1,000,000 and 1,000,000,000 special to some. I was much more pleased to see a report like this yesterday from semiconeng, than any report of a 1. something GHz processor intro:" Yeah, 1GHz is just another number, but it just happens to be that Intel's current PIII stepping maxes out at 933MHz. Check out Pricewatch.com and you will see eight pages of 866MHz PIIIs, three pages of 933MHz PIIIs, and zero pages of 1GHz PIIIs. Intel has very good availability up to 866MHz and good availability of 933MHz. Notice how Semiconeng didn't say "if a customer orders 1,000/1GHz, they get them"? Also notice that Intel has over 15M Cumines shipping from one fab in one quarter, and 1GHz PIIIs STILL can't be found other than on Dell or IBM's website. Intel's new stepping, their third one in less than a year, is supposed to let the PIII reach higher speeds and it should be here pretty soon according to this - developer.intel.com but until this stepping gets ramped up, Intel is stuck at a max of 933MHz in volume. Monday's 1.13GHz release will make it APPEAR Intel is doing fine in MHz/GHz, but the truth is different. Sure, anyone can say AMD isn't coming out with a 1.1GHz Athlon for a whole month, and while I would like it to come out much sooner, the fact is AMD has no real competition at 1GHz. Just HYPE.