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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (5674)	4/21/1998 7:58:00 PM
From: Xpiderman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6843

Dell will stop selling Pentium PCs and shifting its entire Dimension line to Pentium II processors and lowering prices. Also Intel has ceased "new wafer starts" on the Pentium processor. In other words, Intel has stopped devoting production lines to building Pentium processors for desktop computers and shifted capacity to the Pentium II. Market researcher International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that 73 percent of desktop and notebook PCs will be sold with the Pentium II by the fourth quarter of this year, Dell said. Currently, Intel Pentium chips represent somewhere between 80-90% market shares among all Sockt-7 CPUs, in another word 80-90% of Socket 7 motherboards made today are for Pentium chips. Today Intel decided to stop produce Pentium chips, the majority Socket 7 motherboard maker, if not all of them, will shift their capacity to Slot-1 motherboard for Pentium II chips. Now the problem is: who will produce Soket-7 motherboard for AMD's K5 and K6? If you are a motherboard maker, would you build motherboards for a rapidly-shirking Socket -7 market?