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To: James Yegerlehner who wrote (25408)	10/31/1997 1:58:00 PM
From: Profits	Respond to of 1578510

Jim, I was at the Microprocessor Forum recently and heard the CEOs presentation and I spoke with several AMD employees who were there also. The pricing info came from a friend who works for one of the Top 5 PC Suppliers and he just received the Q497 pricing update. These are the facts. Profits

To: James Yegerlehner who wrote (25408)	11/1/1997 7:53:00 PM
From: James Yegerlehner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578510

AGP for socket 7: tomshardware.com Unfortunately no benchmarks yet, but Tom says: "I am still doing the performance testing, but so far it looks as if you definitely benefit from an AGP card in this board. The PCI graphic performance is pretty much the same as of the PA-2007, but the difference to AGP seems larger than what you find in Pentium II LX boards. "

To: James Yegerlehner who wrote (25408)	11/5/1997 7:18:00 PM
From: James Yegerlehner	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578510

All- It will be interesting to see how the L2 Cacheless PII benchmarks. If the performance is similar to that of PMMX's or K6, then the only reason I can imagine for it is to try to obsolete socket 7 as fast as possible; the the cost of PMMX is presumably lower. If this turns out to be the case, then Intel may be locking themselves into a cost structure that is higher than that of AMD, assuming AMD ever gets its yields up. Does anyone know of any such benchmarks? Jim