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To: Craig Freeman who wrote (53734)	3/31/1999 3:10:00 AM
From: Gary Ng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572711

Craig, Re: Given the absence of such products, I must conclude that innovation is a dying art. There must be some reasons why they don't do it. The cheapest dual processor system should be Celeron + 440BX. Basically, there isn't that much to do for such a system(comparing to K6) but why don't we see them ? Gary

To: Craig Freeman who wrote (53734)	3/31/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572711

<But it seems a shame not to capitalize on the price of AMD's low-end chips to create PCs more capable than those based upon single, yet more expensive, Intel CPUs.> I wouldn't be surprised if a startup or two is trying to build multiprocessor K6-III systems right now. Even if the K6-III isn't necessarily geared towards multiprocessing, a chipset can be designed so that two of any processor can be made to work in parallel. The problem with pitting a dual K6-III machine vs. a single Pentium III machine is that you might save money on the processors, but you'll be spending extra money on the dual-processor motherboard vs. the single-processor motherboard. And it's unlikely that the performance of the dual K6-III will be that much more than a single Pentium III. Finally, there are a ton of single-processor Pentium III motherboards out there, giving the guy who's assembling the Pentium III machine much more leeway. The guy who's assembling the dual K6-III machine will likely find an extremely small number of dual K6-III motherboards out there. In short, it just doesn't make any business sense whatsoever to build multiprocessing K6-III machines to compete against Pentium III machines. Tenchusatsu