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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (40242)	10/28/1998 12:59:00 PM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Respond to of 1573841

Re. Why would AMD price their 300mhz higher than the 333mhz Ten , I thought you Intel guys knew all the answers at least thats the impression some like Yousef try to give . The answer to your question is quite simple. The 333mhz runs on a 95mhz board which because of timing considerations with 100mhz sdram does not give the best performance , it also locks a buyer into processors in the same multiplier settings. The 300mhz on the other hand runs on a 100 mhz board which gives optimum performance for 100mhz sdram and also enables buyers to upgrade to 400mhz and higher in the future , Brian

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (40242)	10/28/1998 1:35:00 PM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1573841

Tench, Re: price increase of k6-300 Tench you are being too analytical about this. Logically it is stupid. However it does a couple of things: A) Sends a message that AMD is raising prices to Investment community. These guys are pretty dumb and they like increasing prices and margins. B) Sends message that speed splits are now such that 333 is low end. So in reality they are shipping 333's as 300's to satisfy customers. In general it's a bunch of BS. The real issue is how many 366/380/400's do they sell this quarter. Regards, Kash