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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (37281)	9/22/1998 11:17:00 AM
From: Darryl Olson	Respond to of 1572190

Advanced Micro To Unveil New Chip - WSJ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has developed a chip that could help drive down prices for portable computers, offering comparable performance to archrival Intel Corp. for about one-third the price, the Wall Street Journal reported today. AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., Tuesday will announce that it is shipping a microprocessor for laptop machines that operates at 300 megahertz, the same speed offered by Intel's fastest chip for the portable market, the report said. AMD said customers for the new product include Compaq Computer Corp., the No. 1 personal-computer maker, and other manufacturers that it isn't yet identifying, the report said. David Summer, director of product marketing, said the new K6-300 will sell for $229, compared with $637 for Intel's 300-megahertz Pentium II, the Journal reported. Where computers based on those Intel chips sell for more than $3,000, AMD estimated that K6-based portable computers will sell for $1,999 to $2,499 this fall, the report said.