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To: greg nus who wrote (31120)	4/6/1998 5:56:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580253

Atiq's soft demeanor should bode well for the company, unlike Jerry's brash personality. Advanced Micro CEO Is Said To Be Grooming New Chief (04/06/98; 4:52 p.m. EST) By Ismini Scouras, Electronic Buyers' News Jerry Sanders is grooming Atiq Raza, chief technical officer, to replace him within the next 12 months as president and CEO of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), according to an analyst's report. "Unlike Jerry's brash personality, Atiq's soft demeanor should bode well for the company," said Ashok Kumar, an analyst with Piper Jaffray, in Minneapolis. Raza was president and CEO of Nexgen, the microprocessor maker AMD acquired in October 1995. According to an AMD spokesman, Sanders, 61, is working under a five-year contract, which stipulates that Sanders must give up the title of CEO in 2002 and chairman in 2003. Santa Clara, Calif.-based AMD, which will release quarterly results Tuesday, might also provide an update about possible management changes as well as details on production yields of its K6 microprocessor, the spokesman said. Last week, the company said test yields of its 0.25-micron K6 have risen from 20 percent late last year to nearly 70 percent. AMD, which signed a two-year foundry agreement with IBM to build its K6 microprocessor in March, is receiving much needed cash from IBM, according to the report. "We have been able to confirm that IBM is indeed injecting capital into the company and plans to use AMD as an instrument in its last stand against Intel," Kumar said.

To: greg nus who wrote (31120)	4/6/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1580253

AMD is making K6 for CE devices, part II "Jupiter notebooks could cannibalize the market by 30 percent to 60 percent," said Matthew Red, an analyst at ARS, a research company in Irving, Texas. Intel recognizes the challenge. Desktops to be introduced next week with its Celeron processor will range from $800 to $1,200 to capture the burgeoning sub-$1,000-PC market. The opportunity for any chip vendor in low-cost PCs is considerable, analysts said. The sub-$1,000-PC market could account for 20 percent of all corporate PCs by year's end, said market researcher Technology Business Research, in Hampton, N.H. Some of the sub-$600 PCs based on Cyrix's MediaGX chip will run Win CE, while others will use Win 95. Initially, those PCs will incorporate MediaGX 233-MHz and 266-MHz processors, but Cyrix will unveil a 300-MHz processor in the fall, said Stan Swearingen, senior director of business management and marketing at Cyrix. AMD is aiming its ElanSC400 embedded chip at the Jupiter market, while Cyrix is designing a low-powered version of the MediaGX. "We are making K6 and ElanSC400 chips for [current] CE devices. We have over 50 Windows CE designs actively working right now," said Dave Tobias, a software developer at AMD. Twelve hours of battery life from a handheld running the ElanSC400 is not inconceivable, Tobias said. Cyrix is designing MediaGX processors for the sub-notebooks that will run between 120 MHz and 150 MHz and emit 4 watts to 5 watts. To increase battery life on the sub-notebooks, Cyrix will introduce chips by spring of next year that use less than 1 watt. Resellers said they are willing to give the subnotebooks a chance. "If the price point is good, and it has the look and feel of a notebook, ... it could take off," said Karen Jiskra, marketing manager at PC Wholesale, a Bloomingdale, Ill.-based distributor.