Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Maverick who wrote (38907)	10/9/1998 1:47:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572944

Maverick, with the K7, the company will continue its policy of pricing its chips 25 percent less than Intel's. You forgot that AMD already backed away from this promise, according to an AMD marketing spokeswoman. She said that now AMD will be pricing processors so that an AMD system will cost less than the equivalent Intel-based system. Tenchusatsu

To: Maverick who wrote (38907)	10/9/1998 2:40:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572944

Brett-Or-Bart - re: "500 MHZ 32-bit K7, due in the first half of 1999" Doesn't that sound a little UNDERWHELMING? After all, Intel already stated that they will introduce their Katmai at 500 MHz in Q1 of next year - sounds like it will appear BEFORE the K7. Then again, the K7 will have to have its own motherboards with special Alpha Chip sets. Will the K7 have Katmai New Instructions? Corporate customers - workstations vendors and software vendors - will probably want to standardize on the best graphics and the K7 might not be COMPATIBLE. Does the lack of Katmai COmpatibelity worry you at all, Maverick? Does the AMD mantra of selling their top-of-the-line-gee-whiz K7 at a discounted price (25% below Intel) worry you, Maverick? Paul