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Technology Stocks : CYRIX / NSM -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockMan who wrote (23122)	1/19/1998 2:26:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Stockman, Let me explain...yes Mhz sells but it's not the term "Mhz"...it's the number. Like 200Mhz. Average Joes look at the "200". I think it's silly to think that a chip running at 150Mhz will sell to an uniformed buyer when sitting next to one that says 200Mhz. The PR rating informs the buyer where that chip stands against other chips that run at higher clockspeeds and are more the standard, i.e. Pentium or Pentium II. If you don't have the PR rating you have a lot less chance of selling the chip. In retrospect Cyrix would have been better off from a marketing standpoint making less efficient MX chips that run at higher clockspeeds like Intel and AMD. This would have helped the FPU too. But they chose to trade off for a more efficient chip and lower clockspeed. This doesn't make the chip a bad chip...just harder to market to the average Joe who compares clockspeeds. So, the number associated with the CPU is what really sells the Average Joe, whether it be MHz or a PR rating. The PR rating however can cause confusion...but NSM has no other choice (IMHO) except to get the MHz way up...and I agree with you on that...I'll believe it when I see it. I never said I agreed with NSM dropping the PR rating...unless of course they have some other relative performance benchmark up their sleeve. So far Tobak and his marketing have left a lot to be desired. Like I've said before, I'm hanging in here to see just what NSM can do with Cyrix. We all know the score. No need to bash NSM...just because you own Intel. Jim