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To: kash johal who wrote (51746)	3/5/1999 11:17:00 PM
From: Yougang Xiao	Respond to of 1572942

"Until now Compaq has offered AMD chips in desktop computers but not laptops." Too green? too lazy? or what! compaq.com

To: kash johal who wrote (51746)	3/7/1999 11:33:00 AM
From: DRBES	Respond to of 1572942

re: mobile chips "While the K6-3 may not exceed Intel's offerings in speed, it is more compact, less power-hungry, likely to be less expensive than Intel chips, Gwennap said." The whole key here is that no supplier: IBM, Compaq, and especially Toshiba has not shown any sign yet of putting any of the K-6 series chips in anything but the bottom end of their offerings. These are budget end devices using conventional or low end components event though some of iNTEL's residual offerings are decidedly less impressive performers than some of the K-6's that they go up against. The change in this may come with the mobile K-7 whenever it comes. The likelihood of this event will depend on power draw and resultant battery life and the fact that it will run Windows NT without any apologies. The advent of this will unleash competition to iNTEL that it has not yet faced in this arena; and, yes, AMD will make very good money on these if and when it happens. Regards, DARBES