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To: Charles Gryba who wrote (159614)	2/21/2002 1:16:03 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

"Maybe someone can mail Toni and ask her what "available" means in this case? " I did. Here is her reply. "The AMD-8000 chipset will be available to infrastructure manufacturers. Whether or not they will be in machines available for sale in the fourth quarter will depend on PC manufacturers' product introduction timelines." Message 17093087

To: Charles Gryba who wrote (159614)	2/21/2002 1:20:28 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Constantine, Re: "it's getting close to q2 and no word for hammer support other than AMD's announcement for the 8000 series chipsets which will be available in q4" Let me play Devil's advocate for a little. I have seen other reports for Hammer chipsets, like this one from VIA. xbitlabs.com "K8HTB. This is the first solution for 64bit AMD Clawhammer CPUs. No details are available so far, however, the test samples are said to come out in April this year." Re: "add 2 qauerters to that for motherboards" One quarter, maybe. I haven't seen many chipset launches take 2 whole quarters before motherboards became available. I doubt it would take that long for Hammer. Re: "Via's chipset won't be ready until q4 ( besides who would buy a 1st gen via chipset anyway ? )." VIA has just about all the market share for AMD platforms. People will buy from them because they have no other choice. Re: "Look at the nforce, even now, it's only starting to show up in numbers and it's been 1 quarter sine motherboards appeared and 7 months since the chipset was ready." nVidia has had a rough ride, and their highly expensive chipset simply doesn't have convincing performance. Yet, this has been their first try at the chipset market. As I had predicted, it didn't make nearly as much noise as it was hyped. However, that doesn't mean that the nForce2 will suffer the same fate. wbmw