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To: Petz who wrote (33406)	6/18/1998 7:31:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572208

Petz & Jim, I don't think that mother board makers are losing money on slot 1 for the Celeron. How is the board different than any other PII board? In fact, whatever they develop, their margins will always be close to nil, so they are probably the ones that are the most pissed off at Intel for making them go to the trouble of developing new boards. Intel and box OEMs are the ones that will profit with the new socket as the system becomes more price competitive. The 66 Mhz bus is quite surprising, though. I will bet that it is a head fake by Intel to try and catch AMD off guard. If true, though, AMD's K6-3, with the same size L2 as the Mendocino, but with a faster system bus and the option of L3 cache, will be more attractive than the Mendocino. Plus, it will have 3D Now. I hope AMD doesn't have to position the K6-3, their best CPU, against Intel's Mendocino, their worst (actually, Mendocino may give more competition to Intel itself than any of their competitors). Pravin.

To: Petz who wrote (33406)	6/18/1998 10:53:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572208

Re: "Of course, Intel will have to develop a new chip set and they might have to start using Greek letters (æX chipset?)." Why would they need a new chipset? And for that matter I wonder why they didn't simply go back to Socket8? How different can it be? Re: "By 1999, the rest of the world will be moving to 200 MHz busses while Intel comes out with a 66 MHz Socket 8 (1996) equivalent bus." You can rest assured that Intel will have a bus above 200mhz as well... EP