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: Merlo who wrote (50666)	2/23/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1573213

Merlo - Re: " The only thing that matters at this point is sales and AMD has the better price performance chip with the K6-3" So what are the SALES ??? Judging by yesterdays LACK OF ANNOUNCED K63 PC systems, the sales are ABYSMAL. Paul

To: Merlo who wrote (50666)	2/23/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573213

Anands new benchmarks show K6-III-450 on Windows NT is much faster than the Pentium III-500, in fact, it will be faster than the Pentium III-550. All his benchmarks are flawed, however, because he uses just 64M of RAM. With 128M RAM, the L3 cache will make a bigger difference, and the K6-3-450 will be faster than the Pentium III-500 on both Windows NT and on Windows 98. As you said, it is certainly the price/performance leader, too bad AMD will be lucky to make 1/2 million of them this quarter. Petz

To: Merlo who wrote (50666)	2/23/1999 4:01:00 PM
From: Merlo	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573213

Amd stock is only selling at a tiny fraction of Intel's stock price. In my opinion it's a very low price for a company that's # 2 and got 50% of retail sales next to Intel. With the new German plant coming on line shortly, producing many K6-III and K7 this stock is indeed very low priced. look at all the bench marks of AMD chips compared to Intel's. Some are better or slightly below on some bench marks but so what the price difference more than makes up for a very slight advantage Intel may have in speed and many other cases AMD chips are better.