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To: greg nus who wrote (49174)	2/10/1999 3:46:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572158

bad nus - Re: " AMd is taking care of business. for Intel it's a Silicon Valley nightmare in technicolor. " Well, then, why is it that AMD is "seeing red" ? Paul

To: greg nus who wrote (49174)	2/10/1999 4:39:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572158

<AMd is producing chip that deliver superior grapics.> Really? That's not what the consumers think, or else they would be buying AMD chips for at least $100 over the price that AMD has to sell them at right now. AMD doesn't reduce their prices as a gift to the consumer. They have to reduce prices in order to convince the consumer that their chip is a better value than Intel's. I've heard guys like Maxwell tell me back in the autumn of 1998 to wait until the Christmas season. That was when 3DNow was supposed to be featured in every hot new game. That was when those AMD systems were supposed to be flying off the shelves. Well, that didn't happen without AMD having to reduce the prices of their chips to an average of under $90. This is well under their target of $100 for last quarter, and AMD paid dearly. Now it has been almost nine months since the release of 3DNow, and what does AMD have to show for it? Very little, except the right to brag that they beat Intel's Pentium III to the market. That's cool, but where were the huge profits? Ah ha. AMD's next hope is the K6-3 and the K7. The K7 is AMD's first chance to truly beat Intel's offerings clock-for-clock, but given AMD's hype-to-reality ratio in the past, I'm not holding my breath. Tenchusatsu