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To: Investor A who wrote (31123)	4/6/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1580229

AMD is making K6 and ElanSC400 chips for CE devices. Over 50 Windows CE designs actively working right now. Intel Rivals Set Sights On Low End (04/06/98; 10:45 a.m. EST) By Kimberly Caisse and Jeff Bliss, Computer Reseller News Cyrix and Advanced Micro Devices said they believe they have found the chink in Intel's armor: sub-$1,000 PCs. Now they want to widen it. Following their success in the low-cost PC market, Cyrix and AMD (company profile) will supply chips for a wide range of inexpensive handheld, notebook, network, and desktop computers. The systems could expose Intel's vulnerability because the low-end desktop and handheld segments are among the few markets the Santa Clara, Calif.-based chip maker (company profile) does not dominate, analysts said. "If [Cyrix and AMD] carve that market out, Intel is not positioned to defend," said Rob Enderle, an analyst with Giga Information Group, in Santa Clara, Calif. Cyrix will raise the ante by lowering prices. The Richardson, Texas-based manufacturer is signing up original equipment manufacturers to ship by this summer a corporate desktop PC priced at $599. Both AMD, in Sunnyvale, Calif., and Cyrix also are designing chips for Windows CE sub-notebook devices based on Microsoft'ss "Jupiter" concept -- a Win CE device smaller than a traditional notebook but larger than existing offerings. The form factor will be similar to Toshiba America Information Systems' Libretto. And the $1,000 price tag and promises of long battery life could help the devices cut into the notebook market, analysts said.