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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (27065)	12/22/1997 9:02:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573088

Bill , re. those K6 numbers... I agree that they seem very high , but I am not about to set my own figures on K6 sales like you . It was not just the figures however they also commented on PII and K6 running neck to neck in sales. What also surprised me was that PII is as high as 17.4% since there were so many reports on how lousy PII sales were . One thing that was keeping sales down on K6 of course was the lack of volume production but the price of the 233 mhz has been dropping rapidly for the last two months , that indicates much better yields . Brian

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (27065)	12/22/1997 11:29:00 PM
From: James Yu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573088

Bill, I already posted a lot of warnings of Pentium IIs sales from differnet sources as follows: Message 2725678 Message 2735473 Message 2769402 Message 2770401 I believe the PC data is very close to my sources. Best wishes James

To: Bill Jackson who wrote (27065)	12/23/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573088

Bill, re:<I suspect those numbers are way off. They seem to ignore the screwdriver shop> There are about 30 "screwdriver shops" in San Diego and about 30% of all computer system ads are for K6-based systems. About 1/3 of them don't sell any AMD systems, but this number is slowly dwindling. The rest typically advertise 3-5 systems and the top one or two are PII-based while all the others have prices for all speed grades of either Pentium MMX or K6-MMX. I think there was a poll in Computer Shopper a couple of months ago, in which over 25% of the readers that intended to purchase a new computer in the next six months said it would be AMD-based. I bring this up because the computer hobbyist type is the one who buys from the screwdriver shops at swap meets, etc. Petz