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To: StockMan who wrote (37294)	9/22/1998 12:47:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Stocky, RE:"It sells for LESS than the Celeron 333 from Compaq. Must mean that AMD is giving it away." AMD "must be giving it away"? Sounds like an act of desperation on your part Stocky. Bad enough that AMD has a 350, eh? You thought that was impossible. Now they must be giving them away. What's next? Maybe they will be giving a pepperoni pizza away with each cpu? Come on Stocky, just deal with it...AMD isn't going away. MHz sells... Jim

To: StockMan who wrote (37294)	9/22/1998 1:06:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

Stocky, Wassup dude? AMD starting to move up again in a weal market? Wutz goin' on? Jim

To: StockMan who wrote (37294)	9/22/1998 2:55:00 PM
From: Maverick	Respond to of 1583406

If a mobile K6-2 ships on schedule, it will beat the comparable Intel Katmai chip to market by months AMD 300MHz Notebook Processor Cheaper Than Intel's 09/22/98 Newsbytes, Tuesday, September 22, 1998 at 13:36 SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A., 1998 SEP 22 (NB) -- By Craig Menefee, Newsbytes. Advanced Micro Devices [NYSE:AMD] has introduced a 300 megahertz (MHz) mobile processor for notebook PCs that undercuts Intel's 300 MHz mobile P-II price by close to two-thirds. The AMD-K6/300 is Intel's first serious notebook processor competition since AMD dropped out of that market in the days of the 386. AMD's new offering already has at least one taker -- Compaq Corp. has announced a 300 MHz AMD-based Presario 1250 notebook that will come in at $1,199 after a conditional $100 rebate. AMD says other firms are about to issue AMD-K6/300 notebook announcements of their own, but hasn't specified which firms. The AMD-K6/300 will cost $229 in lots of 1,000, compared to Intel's current mobile 300MHz Pentium II price of about $635. The difference is expected to accelerate price cuts on the Intel chips. Some reports said the giant Santa Clara firm plans a portable 300MHz Pentium Processor with MMX early next year. Still, AMD's offering is here now. Early reviews say the chip performs about like the much more expensive P-II in every area but multimedia, where the K6 never has excelled, even though K6 chips all come with 64K of on-chip L1 cache and with MMX instructions. The K6 notebook versions are manufactured using AMD's now standard 0.25-micron process. They run considerably cooler than comparable desktop processors, typically consuming less than 6.6 watts of power. They are available in packages with a one-inch footprint, AMD says. AMD will address the multimedia notebook market early next year, if events go as planned. At that time the Sunnyvale firm expects to introduce a mobile version of its K6-2 chip, with that chip's built-in 3DNow graphics acceleration, according to current reports. If a mobile K6-2 ships on schedule, it will beat the comparable Intel Katmai chip to market by months. AMD is also expected to bring 100 MHz front-end bus designs to notebooks by mid-1999, something Intel had not planned until the third quarter.