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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (117441)	11/13/2000 12:23:12 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Ten - Re: "The success of Hammer is based off of the assumption that Itanium (and McKinley) will fail, that Pentium 4 will fail, and that OS and software for x86-64 will somehow magically appear through the open-source community on-time and fully functional." Not necessarily. AMD is pretty much assured that the success of Hamster will come with good reviews from the AMD cheerleading Gamer Web sites - and Tom Uberschmuckermeister. Can you see the Hamster selling for $195/each - as a " Kick Ass Game CPU" ? Paul

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (117441)	11/13/2000 2:18:41 AM
From: SisterMaryElephant	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, <it seems like AMD really is a one-trick pony when it comes to the x86 market> Good observation. The AMDroids need to come to grip with the fact that AMD has yet to lead in more than one CPU market segment simultaneously. The original K6 was impressive only until the Celeron came along. The K6-2 made some headway into the laptop space, only to lose out to Coppermines and SpeedStep. Finally the K7 has taken over the desktop segment. How long before the P4 and PIII derivatives regain that segment? To be fair, however, one thing that AMD has accomplished to their credit is that they have moved up the CPU food chain and are getting higher ASP's, which translates into higher earnings and stock price. And, BTW, when we are talking market segments above, we are talking the retail/consumer space, which is no more than 20% of the total. Really puts things in perspective, IMHO. Regards. SK