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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76829)	3/19/1999 6:26:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, >>>So what if AMD prices the K7 at $1,000 less than a comparable Xeon? What are they going to do, tell a customer that they can save $4,000 on a $40,000 server? If the processor, chipset, or server platform is even a little less stable than Intel's, that's going to cost the customer much more in lost work and downtime.<<< Interesting you should talk about stability of the processor, chipset, or server platform (of non-Intel hardware in your context). I wonder if Intel has reliability numbers on the competition's products, sort of to subtly have up their sleeve and use for FUD or as a tie-breaker. Dirty pool, I suppose, but the poor yield begets poor reliability premise must be very tempting to use as a trump card. Of course, there is no question as to which X86 producing company has the best yields, by far. Tony

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (76829)	3/19/1999 7:11:00 PM
From: Michael Bakunin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

..then again, that's just what AMD is trying to do. Have you seen chiptech.com yet? You should like it -- it quotes you -- and it shows why K7 as currently envisioned has to attack the medium-high end server space, and why if (big if..) AMD can come through on its promises within its timetable, it has a shot, at least at crimping Intel's Xeon margins. Merced is late; if K7 is not, they will be able to save customers money on an (ostensibly) better, faster SMP box. Wonder if it's on time..