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To: Yousef who wrote (37138)	9/18/1998 2:25:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1570819

Yousef - Re: " But earlier models by FIC and IBM hit a snag. " They hit a snag? What do they mean by snag? Were there technical problems with the K6, quality problems or performance problems? Hitting a SNAG doesn't sound good to me. Paul

To: Yousef who wrote (37138)	9/18/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570819

Yousef: <"Taiwan end-users seemed to have strong reservations about an unfamiliar processor brand." Interesting, eh ??> No. Who cares much about habits of the tiny Taiwan population? Of course, every extra sale is good, but the Taiwan is not the major PC consumer. But what you miss from that article is the really important information: nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com "According to a report by the Taiwan's Institute for Information Industry(III), the locomotive semi-government agency for the information industry, Taiwan made 23.4 million units of motherboards in the first six months of 1998, about 57 percent of them Slot-1 type." If you, with your Ph.D, still is capable to perform an arithmetical operation called "subtraction", you may find out that 43% of the world larges manufacturer of PC board were likely the Socket7! Not to shabby... It means that 20 million boards this year are ready for AMD K6 (since Intel dropped regular Pentiums). "make Idsat so", eh?