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To: Scumbria who wrote (51538)	3/3/1999 2:23:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573682

SCUMbria - Re: "Alpha chip to clock 1.4GHz in copper" That's it. That kills Merced. It will be a K7/Alpha world for sure. Paul

To: Scumbria who wrote (51538)	3/3/1999 2:28:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1573682

SCUMbria - "the K6-3 400 and K6-3 450 CPUs, are still missing in action ." The OEM's must be sucking up all the MILLIONS of K63's ! Paul {==========================} sharkyextreme.com AMD's lone response, the K6-3 400 and K6-3 450 CPUs, are still missing in action with several vendors reporting to Sharky Extreme that AMD will only give a response of "two weeks or so" when asked about the actual ship dates for the new CPUs. At a price of $330 to $400, the K6-3 CPUs are good bargains for the performance they deliver, but just as Sharky Extreme predicted at Comdex98 four months ago, AMD's yields aren't satisfactory enough for high volume shipments at this point, and probably won't be until April. (Remember folks, at Comdex AMD was telling both the media and customers alike that the K6-3 400 would hit the market in mid-January 99…whoops.) Readers anxiously awaiting the AMD K7 500 should see the poor volume levels of the K6-3 as a warning sign as to when the new mega-CPU will actually hit the market. Sharky Extreme believes that a date of late July 99 is accurate at this point, with high volume occurring in late August or September at the earliest. We're looking forward to the K7, hopefully we'll be able to report on its progress towards the end of this week, as we've got sources at two different tier-1 OEMs that just received their first "technology demonstration examples" of the K7 complete with a functional mainboard.