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To: Adrian Wu who wrote (32080)	4/22/1998 12:09:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583304

Ladies and Gentlemen: We are just a little over 1 month away from the launch of the K6-3D. This event is more important than the K6 launch last year. The K6 launch was the day that AMD caught up with Intel. The K6-3D launch will be the day that AMD will diverge and be different from Intel. Motherboards socket 7 with 100MHz will also be available everywhere. Consumers will be blessed. Maxwell

To: Adrian Wu who wrote (32080)	4/22/1998 12:35:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583304

Adrian, please ignore this provocateur John Y.Wang. However, the question is not so simple. Since Intel has likely dropped any Socket7 support with introduction of the Celetron, the real question is whether VIA, ALi and SiS are ready to supply enough 100MHz chipsets to maintain the Socket7 at 20-30M sets per year. The Socket7 boards are obviously cheaper to make: Slot1 needs a huge 2M EPROM to hold some "microcode patches" to work around numerous Pentium-II bugs in contrast to 1M EPROM BIOS for S7 boards; Slot1 also needs an additional secondary power source to provide the 1.5V reference for GTL+ signals. The Intel South bridge is also underdeveloped: the PS/2 mouse port, keyboard, floppy, etc, require typically 4 more chips to solder. In ALi chipset, all this is handled by a single chip. The caveat here might be that Intel may give his BX for about free. Having $11B in cash, they can afford this for a while. Intel's policy for subsidizing his low-end products and bribing OEMs is the problem. Regards, Ali

To: Adrian Wu who wrote (32080)	4/22/1998 11:44:00 PM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583304

Please name a few of the 30 companies supporting this phantom Super Socket-7, with links please. With only 15% of the market for this Super Socket-7 (very, very optimistic here since this interface is still not available), how can you say the cost is lower than Slot-I which is here already and going to be 80+% of the market. Do you know that the higher the quantity of manufacturing, the lower the cost? The folks that manufacture super Socket-7 would be forced to drop out in supporting of Slot-I motherboards. Enough talk. Let me give you a quiz. True or false, the higher the quantity, the lower is the cost. Time Traveler