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To: space cadet who wrote (32833)	5/20/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Joey Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571281

space cadet, re:Hopefully the hypesters or whatever that drive up the price of this stock will do their thing. I'd wait until next week when K6-2 is released...Jerry knows how to throw a party and so that should be worth a few points... joey

To: space cadet who wrote (32833)	5/20/1998 6:34:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571281

Re: "I got suckered into selling covered puts on Friday which means I'm now long the stock....I mean IMO this stock should be trading in the low single digits. Is there a crappier stock in America not on the bulletin board?" You must be a real genius to be long a stock that you believe is the crappiest stock in America.

To: space cadet who wrote (32833)	5/20/1998 7:47:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571281

AMD to introduce 2 K7's for server & desktop based on Alpha bus, K6-3 w/ integrated L2 cache Intel's rivals blaze different paths By Lisa DiCarlo, PC Week Online 05.20.98 10:30 am ET SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Intel Corp.'s competitors said this week they are taking dramatically different paths to compete against the chip giant's proprietary Slot 1 bus interface. Advanced Micro Devices Inc., which will announce its K6-2 next week, will base all of its next-generation processors (starting with the K7 next year) on Digital Equipment Corp.'s 21264 Alpha bus. Centaur Technology Inc., meanwhile, will eliminate the system bus altogether in its next-generation processor, the C7. Neither company will design chips based on Slot 1, even though they have a license to do so through their separate foundry agreements with IBM Microelectronics. AMD, of Austin, Texas, will not only pass up using the Slot 1 bus, but it will make the risky move of competing with Intel head to head -- on the low end, at mid-range, on integrated chips and even on servers. Next year, AMD will release at least two versions of the K7 processor, one for servers and one for desktops, said Dana Krelle, vice president of marketing at AMD, here at PC Tech Forum. Both versions will be based on the Alpha bus. But it will kick off the battle next week, when it releases its first-ever differentiated product, the K6-2. That chip has 21 multimedia instructions called 3DNow! AMD's "plain" K6 chips will be priced the same as Intel's 266MHz Celeron, which has been criticized for poor performance and high cost. The K6-2 will be priced 25 percent below Pentium II processors at the same clock speed. AMD's Krelle said its additional multimedia instructions, which will also be used by Centaur and Cyrix Corp., make it a better performer for floating point and 3D intensive applications. AMD will not formally announce pricing until next week.