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To: Dave who wrote (153992)	1/6/2002 2:00:52 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Re: Remember Cyrix's strategy where they attempted to sell their 6x86 uP for more than a comparable Intel processor? Cyrix actually did quite well until their actual performance began to lag. Check out historical sales patterns in this great graphic from MDR: mdronline.com And product speeds and introductions here: users.erols.com Cyrix's problems occurred when their performance ratings were stuck at 233mhz for about a year starting in may of '97. Intel introduced a 300 at that time, and was at 400 a year later when Cyrix finally offered a PR333 (nominal mhz 250) chip. By then, Cyrix was stretching their performance ratings, and they began to lose credibility - which you pointed out. So far, at least, AMD's performance ratings have been conservative, with 3rd party reviews listing them as slightly under-rated according to actual performance relative to the very long pipeline, but presumably frequency scalable, P4. As long as AMD keeps its ratings conservative, past (and current) experience indicates that they can be made to work.