Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (47272)	1/25/1999 4:30:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571124

Thanks for the quote, Jim. Here's the link, fellas, just in case you forgot who Herr Uberclockermeister was: www4.tomshardware.com By the way, here's a quote from the blurb that confirms my suspicions that AMD marketing could use a clue or two: The next thing I did was asking Dana Krelle, AMD's VP of marketing, if AMD wasn't interested in giving a very strong signal to OEMs as well as motherboard manufacturers, to make sure that K6-3 will only run on well equipped platforms. A K6-3-system that has a CPU-performance high enough to compete with Intel's fastest Pentium II and Pentium III-processors should not run in a typically cheap and mediocre equipped Socket7-system, should it? I caught Dana on the wrong foot, he wasn't able to give me any meaningful answer to that question at all, it seems as if AMD has accepted playing the dog in the cheap-systems corner of computer stores. Of course, Tom failed to mention that the K6-3 will still have a mediocre floating-point engine vs. a Pentium II or Pentium III, which will hurt the performance of those very 3-D games that entrance Tom these days, but that's not the point ... The point is that AMD still fails to understand that their name is associated with bargain-basement systems. That's why their top-of-the-line K6-2 is found in systems whose components aren't exactly top-notch compared to the Pentium II systems currently out there. Even though Intel's market segmentation is sparking Tom to call for a consumer revolt, it has been the very key to Intel's strength in the face of competition. No wonder AMD's ASP for last quarter was disappointing, to put it mildly. Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (47272)	1/25/1999 4:37:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1571124

McMannic - Re: "Tell those guys that they can stick up those so-called ‘high-end-systems' with the oh-so-wonderful Pentium II or soon Pentium III processors up their rear end. Destroy the segmentation idea that made Intel and the large OEMs achieve new record-profits last year! " Sounds like ol' Tom Uberclockermeister has bought a lot of AMD stock at $29+ and shorted Intel at $80 ! The Whiners love to whine - don't you? Paul