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To: Steve Porter who wrote (25981)	11/15/1997 2:58:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1581342

Steve - re: "nx5x86 went on to be the K5, " No - the NX5x86 was a completely different pin out from the K5/Pentium with its own separate cache bus to L2 cache and no internal FPU. AMD killed the Nx5x86 almost immediately after acquiring NexGen. It simply had too few customers, had no FPU, and was headed towards the bit bucket. All this hapened less that two years ago. Paul

To: Steve Porter who wrote (25981)	11/15/1997 10:35:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1581342

K6-233 prices dropping at pricewatch.com. One dealer in San Diego advertises it for $270 (was $349). Also, many vendors that sell systems only (no CPU's) are selling their K6-233 systems for $100 to $160 more than the K6-200. This indicates their cost is between $260 and $320, much closer to the $225 Q1000 list price of the K6-233. At Pricewatch.com, now 10 companies at 360 and below (was 7). I expect prices to drop precipitously next week. Didn't notice a change in AMD prices yet at thechipmerchant.com, but they do lag a little bit from the best prices. Intel MMX-233 chip is now only $299, why are they selling below the Q1000 price for quantity 1? If K6-233 prices drop to $230 - $250 shortly, it will show that the speed bin yield problem has mostly been solved, although the overall yield is too low at this point to have a prayer of producing 2M processors this quarter. This may be the reason that AMD said there might be a loss in the 4th quarter, rather than saying there probably would be a loss. Petz