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To: Dr. Saeed Assadi who wrote (37921)	10/2/1998 1:18:00 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571698

Dr. Saeed, Re: "I agree with you. Now, why shouldn't we expect a 400 MHz CPU from AMD?" Well, I am glad to see that you agree with me ... The reason I will be watching the 400mhz K6-2 release is to see if additional software patches are needed to fix hardware "bugs". If these are discovered by AMD, hopefully they won't ignore them and rush the 400mhz part to market. Don't you think this would be a "bad way" to do business ?? Make It So, Yousef

To: Dr. Saeed Assadi who wrote (37921)	10/2/1998 1:46:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571698

Dr. Assadi, I read your message after my response to Mr. StockMan. I agree with you. Now, why shouldn't we expect a 400 MHz CPU from AMD? I am interested in seeing the price of the fast CPU's to drop. AMD at least accelerate this process. Don't you think so. First of all, we all expect a 400 MHz CPU from AMD. The question is when. I remember posting a while back predicting that AMD may have to release a 380 MHz K6-2 as well as a 400 MHz version, since AMD will obviously have problems churning out the 400 MHz version in large enough quantities to satisfy the OEM's in Q4. This was before I left to go to Korea two weeks ago, and lo and behold, now I find out that AMD is going to do just that. That naturally leads to the second question, which is how many AMD can produce in Q4. Once AMD gets to 400 MHz, they will undoubtedly announce it to the whole world, but if AMD can't produce enough of these babies, OEM's aren't going to be too pleased. As for the price of CPU's to drop, yes, we can all thank AMD for accelerating this process. We can also thank AMD for four straight quarterly losses, which may become five according to Wall Street, and perhaps six according to me. Tenchusatsu