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To: Timothy Liu who wrote (55441)	4/9/1999 7:10:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Timothy Liu, re: comments < In later posts I predicted that the price of mHz would begin to decline.> True since the beginning of time. I was referring to entry price of new products. Historically Intel introduced products in the $1000 range. Celeron, and of course PIII are prime examples of new products introduced well below this. I also think the learning curves on all chips are much steeper than historically. > I speculated that CPU performance was outpacing the requirements of the applications.< Since NT 4.0. I think before then. When you look at the needs of the average user, Pentium is more than sufficient. >I also felt Intel should start spending some of their megabucks on developing new applications that required the increasing power of their products.< Intel has been working toward that for a long time: Hybrid applications, software codec, 3D, Chrome, now the hottest is speech. True they're working on new applications, but I don't view any of these as a "killer" app. One that causes a the majority of users to "have to have" the fastest chip. As for speech, I don't see this as having major impact for years.