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To: Yougang Xiao who wrote (45072)	1/7/1999 2:51:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572171

From the article posted by Xiao: <The anticipated entry of AMD into the server market, which plans to release the K-7 chip later this year, could change all the projections. K-7 is rumored to be better than any chip that Intel has on the market and will be sold at a discount to Intel's.> I don't think Marcy Burstiner gets it. First of all, the K7 is unlikely going to appear in servers for a while. It will take a while before the multiprocessor K7 platforms appear. (And no, I don't believe it's as easy as replacing an Alpha 21264 with a K7.) Second, the dynamics of the server market are very different from the sub-$1000 retail market. Even if AMD prices the K7 well below Intel's Xeon, it's not going to make much of a difference in total server prices. Third, let's not even talk about the lack of RAS (™ Tony Viola). Finally, the writer assumes that Intel will stay still once AMD shows any signs of making headroads into servers, like it did once when it initially assumed that the sub-$1000 market was just a curiosity. Tenchusatsu