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To: Paul Engel who wrote (32323)	5/2/1998 1:49:00 AM
From: Robert Walter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571886

Paul, Even you should now better than to take IDT seriously as a competitor in the mpu market place. They currently do not have the manufacturing capacity to support even one tier one vendor. They may be able to later in q3 but even then it will take some time. As for HP I think only time will tell if they decide to use the K6. Even with out them AMD still has more than enough tier one vendors to sell chips to. The main hurdle AMD must overcome is still on the manufacturing end. It will be more of a concern when AMD starts to see surpluses of chips which right now is not a problem. Robert

To: Paul Engel who wrote (32323)	5/2/1998 9:43:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571886

Paul , I am starting to believe that you have a screw loose. IDT has 3Dnow technology because AMD unlike Intel recognises that only open standard technology will ultimately succeed as history has proven .Also unlike AMD which has a history of producing reliable and popular CPUs IDT has to break into the market . On the HP article , of course they had to drop the K5 , it is no longer being produced . I am sorry Paul but you sound as if you are getting Altzheimer's disease . Brian