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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (51279)	2/28/1999 9:10:00 PM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1570918

Re: "the Pentium II/III line is already selling very well, so why kill the goose that lays the golden eggs? " AMD has a goose of their own and it lays something from the same general vicinity, however I wouldn't want to call it gold.... EP

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (51279)	2/28/1999 9:17:00 PM
From: ajbrenner	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570918

Re: Intel can easily shift the whole world to Celeron. This, I bet, is AMD's worst fear. Tenchusatsu, No, I bet that would be Intel's shareholder's worst fear. Re: the Pentium II/III line is already selling very well, Since market segmentation has always been a big part of Intel's strategy I don't think you can lump PII and PIII sales together. It remains to be seen how well the PIII line sells. We know how well the PII is selling in the retail channel. ajb

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (51279)	3/1/1999 2:45:00 AM
From: Trey McAtee	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570918

tench-- sure, and i have taken this into account. thats why i am buying AMD. sure INTC could do it, thats my worst case scenario. will they? no. they dont precieve a threat. with 65% of the computer market being sub 1k machines, i could hardly say that P2 is selling well. i feel pretty sure that sales of the processors have not been what intel hoped, predicted or expected given past experiences. this is what i dont get. you guys see this happening, and you know intel (short of draconian measures) cant really do anything about it...still you argue about this as if its stil the 486 generation and AMD cant do a damn thing right. what you should be scared to death of is what if AMD finally gets its shit together? all this has been done with bubble gum and shoe string and suddenly AMD is selling more processors than intel. good luck to all, trey