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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (41125)	11/9/1998 3:45:00 PM
From: Maxwell	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573682

Is everyone ready for the release of K6-2-380MHz and K6-2-400MHz? This event will defy Ashok Kumar's prediction of AMD 400MHz yield. It also says that AMD is ready to play in the big league. OEMs will be very happy and will make big money selling K6-2 systems for Christmas. If AMD can deliver the 450MHz by early Q1 then AMD will win analysts confidence. Also I heard that the K7 is ready to demo at Comdex with AMD chipset. It will be a stunning event. Nobody expects that AMD will be this far along with the K7 after flipping foils at Microprocessor Forum. Good luck everyone. Maxwell

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (41125)	11/10/1998 1:52:00 PM
From: Steve Porter	Respond to of 1573682

Tench, A 133 Mhz 6x86 outperformed a 166Mhz Pentium. yet the Pentium commanded almost a 100% price premium. Why.. becuase the customers want the MHz. It has nothing to do with performance. Steve

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (41125)	11/10/1998 2:59:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

Ten, <it seems that AMD is wobbling back-n-forth with regard to their K6-3 plans.> It is you and Pal who are "wobbling" here and creaming your pants. How stupid it is to think that AMD does not exactly know the performance of K6-3 relative to P-II, or yield, or production booking and allocation, or price susceptibility of OEMs! I deeply understand your concern - you are deep in the dark and scared by K6-3 unknowns. Don't you understand that AMD has much more comprehensive "what-if" spreadsheet at their hands, with many more parameters to play with? The samples of K6-3d with 256k of full-speed cache were around the world for at least half a year by now. I can tell you that the sole force behind the continuation of the Super-7 board production in Taiwan is the K6-3 carrot! The fact that AMD is holding the technically superior design due to unfit to current market conditions speaks for AMD high confidence in their plans. They are playing their card in cold-blood. And you and Pal are losing grounds. Relax, go programming or woodworking - there is nothing you can do about K6-3-"Sharptooth"- the train is coming to squeeze Intel out of consumer market. When - let you remain in the dark.