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To: Maxwell who wrote (40868)	11/5/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1573076

Maxwell - re: "more than 95% of the users will not buy Merced." Good point, Maxwell ! Now, let's look at the numbers. This, there are about 100,000,000 x86 CPUs being made and sold. By 2000, that number will be about 125,000,000. If 5% of these buy Merced, that comes to 6,250,000 MERCED's sold in 2000. Let's just suppose Merced sells for $1200. That would put Intel's MERCED ONLY revenue at $7,500,000,000. Let me clue you in, MAXWELL! That would make MERCED equal to TWO AMD's by the year 2000 ! I don't claim these numbers will happen, but you ought to consider what will happen to AMD if YOUR PREDICTION COMES TRUE. Paul