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To: Investor A who wrote (32970)	5/28/1998 1:51:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570560

It appears that this K6-2-3d is a very impressive chip. Maybe not quite up to the brute fore of the Pentium IIs FPU but the Pentium IIs claim to fame was the Game performance. No longer. And for a LOT less money. Now AMD needs to really get to work on the next chip and the next so that the Katmai will a mute point. Meanwhile, it appears that AMD was playing a little cat an mouse game with Intel on the pricing of the chip. It's much lower than first expected. Maybe 20%. I suspect the cat was not let out of the bag so as to keep Intel from stealing some thunder with a price cut prior to the K6-2 release. It has appeared to have worked and Intels' chips look even more overpriced today. I don't think it will take Intel long to respond. Meanwhile, it appears that the Celeron is dead at least until the Medocino...and any momentum Intel had gained with the Celeron is kaput. AMD cannot help but gain market share with this chip and no longer do the gamers have to shell out the big bucks to get decent frame rates. This really takes the steam out of having to buy a Pentium II for the home user and sure is a boom for the gamers. Perhaps Intel should adopt 3D-NOW...would it help a pentium II? Jim