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To: Paul Engel who wrote (40857)	11/5/1998 5:08:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

<Speaking of Merced, everybody made a real hullabaloo when Intel announced a 6 month slip of Merced.> There's a real difference, though. The AMD K6-3 is a pretty ho-hum CPU when compared to the new IA-64 architecture of the Merced. Intel has been betting half the farm on Merced, and that blasted six month delay splattered a lot of egg on Intel's face. On the other hand, AMD is used to having egg in its face (DOA K5, K6 manufacturing problems), so the K6-3 slipping yet another quarter is merely par for the course. I think that maybe AMD is betting their entire future on K7, which might mean that some resources from the K6-3 team were pulled. Of course, this is assuming that the K6-3 really is delayed another quarter. Personally, even I have a hard time believing that AMD let its K6-3 slip another quarter. Tenchusatsu

To: Paul Engel who wrote (40857)	11/5/1998 6:43:00 AM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572970

Paul: <<And here we are with AMD's Sharpy already SLIPPING 6 months - from Q498 to Q2 99 - and isn't even a new architecture - just a cache grafted onto an existing CPU. I'd be worried if I were you, Maxwell.>> Merced will be the biggest hype from Intel next to MMX. There are no 64-bit softwares that utilize the 64-bit functionality of the Merced. Furthermore Intel is not going to sell it for less than $200. With those 2 criterias more than 95% of the users will not buy Merced. Maxwell