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To: dale_laroy who wrote (36794)	4/20/2001 1:14:16 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dale, You win! Scumbria

To: dale_laroy who wrote (36794)	4/20/2001 3:35:46 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Well actually, Intel knew that there was a low end market. That was why they previously introduced the 75 MHz Pentium. The processor that would change the world with respect to the viability of the low end market was the MediaGX, which was not introduced until later (but this might be what Scumbria is talking about)." Andy Grove made a number of blunders before he left. One was denying that the Sub $1000 PC market even existed. By the time he figured it out, MediaGXs and K6s started the sub $1000 the ball rolling. Intel scrambled out the Covington, cacheless Celeron, AKA, "Pauleron". They added cache later and regained most lost ground when they pushed the Mendocino upwards of 400 Mhz and AMD mucked up trying to push the K6-2 too far to fast. I forget the name of that core. Other notable Andy Grove blunders include being snookered by Rambus, the Pentium registration number and the microarchitecture of the Pentium 4. All little tricks to try and corner the market. Then there was the late Timna, a knee jerk reaction to MediaGX. Some may include Merced in the list of Groves fopahs but the jury is still out. Jim