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To: Joey Smith who wrote (32921)	5/26/1998 5:49:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580041

Re: "AMD is in serious trouble if they expect this chip to be their bread-and-butter for the next year." Why? The K6-2 costs about the same to make as a vanilla K6 (in terms of die size), and offers better performance. Once OpenGL and Direct3D drivers appear in June/July, K6-2 will have top of the line Pentium-II beating performance on older games like Quake and Quake2. As for the next year--well, suffice it to say that K6-3 is on the way soon and by this time next year, K7 will be appearing. Kevin

To: Joey Smith who wrote (32921)	5/26/1998 6:03:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580041

Joey: <<Maxwell, K6-3D sells at roughly the same price as vanilla K6! That says it all! What a joke!! AMD is in serious trouble if they expect this chip to be their bread-and-butter for the next year. >> The real story is that MegaFLOP25 has been able to pump out more than 300K K6/week and that their yield is NORTH of 170. See if Intel can sell PII-400 for less than $200. AMD is migrating everyone to 3DNow. Cheap is the most effective force to get those 100M+ P5 systems to upgrade to 300MHz-3D Now. Maxwell