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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46528)1/18/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: Yougang Xiao  Respond to of 1572629
 
<<What makes you so sure that the K7 is going into servers (Xeon territory) right out of the gate?>>

Whoever's chip going directly into the range of servers that Xeon serve will produce a needed salvation for AMD -- stop Celeron's agressive Pricing.

Alpha workstation/servers as reported by latest theregister.com are coming and welcome news for, hopefully, the stablization of price in the range of K6-2/celeron compete.

The ultimate salvation of AMD's low asp will be when AMD's counter-sengmentation strategy takes its final shape when K7 flies out of the door this coming June. At that point, a civilized MPU market will emerge where nobody has the leverage to subsidize it's low end and decent profit can be made across the board!



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46528)1/18/1999 3:05:00 PM
From: Gary Ng  Respond to of 1572629
 
Tenchusatsu, Re: What makes you so sure that the K7 is going into servers (Xeon territory) right out of the gate?

Have you read the first message that start this whole thread ?
It was asking about K5. Seems that it is the tradition of
this thread to expect the next killer. K5 then K6 and now
K7.

I believe K5 never made a penny and am wondering the
same about K6. Anyone has tracked the whole K6 cycle
until now whether it is a profitable line or not ? Now a snapshot
of a particular quarter but the total from the first K6 shipped till
now ?

Gary



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (46528)1/18/1999 3:41:00 PM
From: RDM  Respond to of 1572629
 
The XEON may be billed as only "appropriate" for servers, but I know of several of them that are used in lowly workstations. They have large caches that are useful for simulators.

The K7 looks like it may be even more attractive for simulators. But not in the present tense! Gauging from the emotion on this thread, it appears that even the true blue Intel wags think it may be too!


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