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To: tejek who wrote (123910)	9/14/2000 5:39:27 PM
From: ajbrenner	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579922

Re:Why do you think that IBM is not introducing Athlon systems in the USA. Ted, Just a quick thought about that. Do you think that maybe they could be just a little POed because Gateway has achieved some sort of most favored son status similar to Dell's status with Intel. If all AMD's production is in fact sold out what's the difference? ajb

To: tejek who wrote (123910)	9/14/2000 5:43:12 PM
From: andreas_wonisch	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579922

Ted, Why do you think that IBM is not introducing Athlon systems in the USA. I don't know. It might have to do with pressure from Intel. Maybe they want to get P4 systems first (together with Dell). Or maybe they get better prices from Intel when they stay Intel exclusive in the US. Or maybe we are just speculating too much... Why do you think that IBM is not introducing Athlon systems in the USA. No, Compaq is 50% AMD in the retail market (on a systems basis) and they have 1.1 GHz Thunderbirds available. The recent report from that analyst at ZDNet was nonsense. Compaq is still AMDs biggest supporter (along with Gateway). Andreas

To: tejek who wrote (123910)	9/14/2000 6:59:41 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579922

Ted, RE:"Why do you think that IBM is not introducing Athlon systems in the USA" IBM was one of the first to offer Athlon systems. Before they got out of the retail business. As far as not offering them now in the USA but in say Canada, this generally means the Athlon is fill in. IBM pulled this years ago with the Cyrix chips they got in return for fabbing them. They showed up in Canadian models but rarely in the USA. Intel seems to be their chip of choice or more likely the best deal. Jim