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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (74767)	3/17/2002 1:16:26 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Cory, ease off, Gottfreid stumbled into incorrect useage since English is a second language and intended no racial derogation. Later posts by him reveal this. Regardless of his intent, he has withdrawn the post and everyone is entitled to make an occasional mistake. We are all human. EP

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (74767)	3/17/2002 1:18:59 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 275872

Mike has a link to a Tec Channel story about T-bred: theinquirer.net Gist of the story (from puzzling through an Englishish auto-translation) seems to be that AMD is shipping volume Thoroughbred, starting in the next couple of weeks, to big OEMs who won't be releasing boxes at retail for about 2 months. There won't be any shipments to distribution until the big OEMs have their boxes available in the channel. This is the way Intel used to do things - it allowed big OEMs like Compaq and IBM to have product available at retail as soon, or sooner, than the whitebox makers. The story indicates that they got this information from one of the OEMs, not from AMD. Tec Channel speculated that grey market parts would start showing up pretty soon, ahead of the OEM launches expected in May (since that always happens with these deferred releases). You know, for a chip that's supposedly going to be introduced at a performance level only 4.75% faster than the current chip (2200 vs. 2100), have no architectural improvements, fit in the same socket, and use the same motherboards - in other words, what is supposed to be a total non-event, especially considering Intel will be at 2.4GHZ by then (or faster) - there sure is a lot of marketing and mystery associated with this release.