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

To: RDM who wrote (48058)	2/1/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580487

<This was the first reference I have seen to a $100 premium for the K6-3.> Here's more evidence that supports my theory that AMD competes mainly on rock-bottom prices. Gateway will be glad to get the K6-2 for prices that Intel isn't willing to go near. But AMD now wants to charge big money (relatively) for the K6-3, and now Gateway is asking "Why?" Check out this quote from the article: Gateway has held numerous negotiations in the past, and fully tested AMD processors on Gateway PCs in their labs, only to return to the Intel fold. So it seems that Gateway rejected AMD after performing tests in their labs, huh? I wonder what Gateway didn't like about the K6-2. Perhaps the answer to this question can reveal some aspects of the x86 CPU market that Tom's Hardware or Anand can never figure out. Tenchusatsu