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To: milo_morai who wrote (134050)	3/4/2001 8:11:54 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570751

AMD Says NEC Will Use Its Chips In PCs Sold in European Market Milo, The article doesn't make it clear...is NEC talking server chips, or simply selling PCs to small businesses? Its a positive design win definitely but it would be really nice if server chips were to be involved if not now, down the road. OT As an aside, Molly Williams, the WSJ reporter for this NEC article, contacted me a couple of months ago here at SI and asked if she could interview me for an after hours trading article she was doing for the WSJ. However the article must never have been published because she was to let me know in which issue it supposed to appear. Oh well, my one chance for national fame down the drain. <g> ted

To: milo_morai who wrote (134050)	3/5/2001 10:46:13 AM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1570751

Another story on the same subject - Hopefully it will extend to the US soon but Europe's not a bad start. technews.netscape.com NEC has decided to incorporate AMD's Athlon and Duron processors into a line of PowerMate DT computers for corporate and government customers in Europe. Initially, NEC will target customers in France, Britain, Italy and the Netherlands. More corporate deals could follow, IDC analyst Roger Kay said. Companies looking to gain a cost advantage might be willing to try AMD chips. Right now, Athlon chips are generally cheaper than Pentium III processors running at the same speed, according to advertised prices on Pricewatch. In the consumer market, Athlon-based computers have often been less expensive than similarly configured computers containing Pentium IIIs at various times in the past several months. "AMD is relatively well positioned right now," Kay said. Japan-based NEC, he added, has a recognized brand. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD is negotiating with at least one major U.S. manufacturer on a corporate desktop deal, according to sources. Athlon chips have already appeared in computers geared at small businesses. An Athlon-based Hewlett-Packard notebook is expected soon. "We will probably see some more of these deals in the near future," said Linley Gwennap, an analyst with The Linley Group. "They have been working on getting Athlon into the corporate market for two years now." ... Others, though, have said that AMD could benefit from Intel's accelerated push with the Pentium 4 into the corporate market this year. The Pentium 4 can currently only be hooked up with Rambus memory, which some corporate customers are nervous about, Mercury Research principal analyst Dean McCarron said.