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To: Maxwell who wrote (44564)	1/1/1999 11:54:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1572207

Maxwell, Such things as working in 2s, or larger groups like 4 or 24? are of concern to server makers. It will take some months of testing before there is any adoption by the sever makers, in fact there may even be some logic is shipping first chips to them for testing. They will need a different board and chip set anyway so this has to be worked out months in advance with chip set makers as well as board makers. No-one ever got fired for buying IBM usd to be the mantra, now it is nobody ever got fired for buying Intel seems popular. Many users who compete in commodity servers will willingly test the parts as when they are fully qualified there may well be a $2000 saving on a quad CPU box. Of course Intel will drop the price and the decline goes on. There is some chance that AMD will be close to them at 1 Gig and they may want to keep price high since AMD can only serve a fraction of the market they may well keep the price high and meet them at weak places who may go to AMD, and keep full list at thos who are afraid to change. In any event the last 1/4 of 99 seems to be the time frame for this shootout, although samples will be going out soon now under non disclosure agreements and Intel will be getting it's first peeks at those ships early next year through holes in those ND agreements via 'friends' Bill

To: Maxwell who wrote (44564)	1/2/1999 2:55:00 AM
From: Tom W.	Respond to of 1572207

Another K6-3 benchmark: cetinc.com

To: Maxwell who wrote (44564)	1/2/1999 10:03:00 AM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572207

Maxwell, >>>If AMD can pull off the biggest upset then my AMD investment will have met its objective.<<< Fine, but you're not acknowledging my point whatsoever that companies select a CPU chip for servers from a lot more criteria than just speed. There was an analogy yesterday from baseball. How about boats. AMD can equivalent deliver the parts for a whippy little speedboat, but how about for an aircraft carrier? Think of the end customer for each...speedboat-an individual, aircraft carrier-an enterprise. Tony