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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (45308)	1/10/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580256

Jim, Re: Katmai business apps. Outside of the Gaming market I see no volume use for the 3d Now and Katmai instructions. I haven't seen or heard of ANY general business application that can be usefully enhanced by 3dNow or Katmai. In the corporate market the win 98/ win 99 and NT numbers will be key and k-3 seems to excel at these whereas the K6/k6-2 has been inferior to the PII's. I think the IT managers are much more sensitive to applications performance than hype and that's why the k-3 has a chance. The dumb consumers on the other hand will buy into Katmai and 3d Now. So I think that Intel will do well with Katmai in the home/gaming markets. However this could really hurt the Celery. I can see the consumers being totally confused and will probably buy either the AMD as it at least has Katmai-like 3d now or get out his check book and buy the real Katmai parts based on FUD. In fact I expect Intel to have to come out with Celeron's with Katmai support in mid-late 99. Regards, Kash