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To: FJB who wrote (37095)	9/16/1998 8:34:00 PM
From: Ling Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571102

"We are seeing the average selling prices of PCs drop dramatically. The story isn't in the growth of the sub-$1,000 PC, but it's in the fact that the high-end systems' prices have collapsed to about $2,000," he added. This is the trend. First, home users can not afford $2000-$3000 computer upgrade cycle every 2-3 years, the next, business users(corporation) also can not afford such kind of expensive upgrade cycle. Definitely, in the next few years, hi-end PC sales will have trouble.

To: FJB who wrote (37095)	9/16/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Respond to of 1571102

Robert: It looks like KNI will just be like 3DNOW when doing 3D geometry. KNI can peak maximum 4FLOPs/clock cycle which is EXACTLY the same as 3DNOW. Intel demoed the KNI to be only 10% faster than the MMX version. This is NOT GOOD! 10% improvement is not the "selling point" at $500+. In short, KNI WILL NOT BE FASTER than 3DNOW! So much for KNI hypes. I predict AMD will be the standard because 1) First to market 2) Cheaper 3) 3DNOW is competitive to KNI 4) More installed base and popular demand 5) Easy for ISV to write codes due to 21 vs 70 codes and DirectX 6.0 Maxwell

To: FJB who wrote (37095)	9/17/1998 1:48:00 PM
From: herb will	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571102

Robert, Peter Glaskowsky, a senior analyst with the Microprocessor Report---------- To clarify from the Eerie Times article: According to the article Glaskowsky is quoted as follows: Peter Glaskowsky, a senior analyst with the Microprocessor Report (Sunnyvale, Calif.), expressed similar concerns, noting that Intel's KNI demos at the Developer Forum were unimpressive and failed to show MPEG-2 capabilities. "The digital video stuff will be there, but whether the 3-D stuff will be ready is unclear to me," he added. Martin Reynolds, a vice president at market-research company Dataquest, Inc is quoted as saying the following: "In addition, KNI includes specific instructions aimed at improving continuous-voice recognition and MPEG-2 encoding. Voice-recognition applications could see improvements of greater than 20 percent in accuracy or response time, thanks to some of the new instructions, said Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar, principal processor architect on Katmai. New instructions for MPEG-2 encoding could collapse 24 tasks into 10, providing a 40 percent improvement in speed, "he said. Looks like Glaskowsky was over in a corner somewhere reading Tom Kurlack. Herb