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To: StockMan who wrote (31871)	4/14/1998 9:24:00 PM
From: Adrian Wu	Respond to of 1574430

Stockman: Compaq will probably replace the Pentium MMX machines with the Celery. Intel still holds >70% of the sub-$1200 home computer market, mostly with their Pentium MMX. Compaq does not use the K6 exclusively for their low end machines. Although AMD is shipping more chips now, they still only account for ~10% of that market. Intel will be phasing out the MMX for desktops as they switch over to 0.25 microns. The Celery will replace that. It makes sense. The newer 0.25 micron k6s need new chipsets and motherboards. (The old TX won't do any longer.). Therefore, Compaq will need to have seperate infrastructure for the newer K6s and the Pentium MMXs. As there will not be enough K6s to completely replace the Pentium MMX segment, Compaq will fill that gap with the Celery, and probably completely made obsolete the MMX eventually. Adrian