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To: Paul Engel who wrote (37434)	9/24/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583725

HP loves the 333 and will love the 380. They can get a premium for it and use cheaper RAM. Poor buyer only knows Mhz...remember! Jim

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37434)	9/24/1998 9:13:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1583725

WHy would they sell a 380 MHz AND a 400 MHz chip? Paul, The only rational reason I can think of would be that yields at 400 MHz are very low. Scumbria

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37434)	9/25/1998 1:04:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1583725

Paul & others: the 380 makes sense because all PC100 SDRAM will run on the ALI chipset motherboards at 95 MHz. In particular, 8 ns SDRAM will work fine at 95 MHz but its more than 5% failure rate at 100 MHz. It doesn't really matter on the VIA motherboards because the mfgr can set the SDRAM to run at AGP speed (66 MHz) and use cheapest SDRAM. My prediction is that the products will go on sale on this date in October. Petz

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37434)	9/25/1998 6:27:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583725

High Priest: <<WHy would they sell a 380 MHz AND a 400 MHz chip? With that non-standard 95 MHz FSB yet ! Something sounds a little fishy here. >> You sound worried and you should be. The 380MHz will give Intel big headache. To compete with the AMD K6-2 380MHz Intel must drop their 400MHz PII below $200 and they aren't going to do that soon. K6-2-380 WILL BE 30MHz faster than Intel PII-350! It will also be FASTER than the CeleronA 366MHz and 95MHz bus is FASTER than 66MHz on CeleronA. The K6-2-400MHz will eat the market share of PII-400MHz big time. With 3DNOW the K6-2 will be able to achieve peak rate of 1.6GFLOPs vs. Intel 0.4GFLOPs in doing 3D floating point. The K6-2-380 and K6-2-400 is AMD's milestone achievement. At the introductory price of $170 and $248 you can KISS BYE-BYE on the upcoming 450MHz Katmai. One way to save your investment is to call up Intel and tell them to slow down on the price cut. The next time Intel begins cutting price AMD will roll out their 450MHz. Maxwell