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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46035)	1/14/1999 5:10:00 PM
From: Scot	Respond to of 1582527

Ten <<Seriously. Jerry's statement that 3D-Now will distinguish K6-2 from Celeron is just more hype. AMD failed to market 3D-Now back in Q4 when it was forced to lower prices against the Celeron.>> What's wrong with these people? Where is the developer support on 3dnow? 3d-now is a joke without support. This company has lots of great ideas but they consistently fail to execute. That's the bottom line. Hey, let's put 3dnow support in Quake, the most popular game!!! Great idea, but what about everything else? I said it several months ago....the developer support is not there. The query to developers all quarter has been: what about 3dnow? "We plan to implement it in a patch." This is a bread and butter issue, where are the troops? We should get Jerry's chauffeur out there to bust some heads and force people to implement 3dnow. Very disapointing. AMD has a great opportunity ahead of it. Intel will probably be bus-locking and clock-locking the celerons. In addition, they won't get KNI and they won't get faster ram. IF......AMD could execute, they could provide faster, better chips at a price point above the celeron and below the PIII. AMD needs to provide a chip with better performance than the Celeron w/o 3dnow. We need a 500mhz K6-3 today, otherwise it is going to be a rough quarter. -Scot

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46035)	1/15/1999 1:31:00 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1582527

Ten, 3DNow is one half the reason why AMD can sell 333 MHz K6-2's at the same price as the Celeron 333. The consumer is looking for anything to distinguish computers and 3DNow is not all hype. MOST new games have either a DirectX 6 mode or a 3DFX mode and both of these are accelerated. Many new games are also using the Quake engine. The new ATI Rage 128 chipset and the old Rage PRO have 3DNow enhancements. The other half of the reason is the poor image of the Celeron brand. Petz