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To: Scumbria who wrote (55613)	4/15/1999 4:16:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1578288

<If K7 sold at 25% below PIII, it would still make a boatload of money for AMD. Where does Intel get their 2 billion dollars profit from?> High margins plus high volume. Lower margins plus low volume (i.e. K7 at 25% below PIII prices) does not a boatload of money make. Like I said before, the real money doesn't come until Dresden. Things will only be much worse if the K7 can't demonstrate much of a performance advantage over the Pentium III. Tenchusatsu

To: Scumbria who wrote (55613)	4/15/1999 11:02:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578288

What happened to the stock price today? Yousef must have covered. <GGGG>.

To: Scumbria who wrote (55613)	4/17/1999 3:48:00 AM
From: Craig Freeman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578288

Scumbria, assuming the K7 is a tad better than the PIII, who do you see buying K7-based PCs? It's too hot and costly for sub-$1,000 systems. You can't use it to upgrade any existing PCs. It will cost far more than 400+MHz Celerons and K6s which are popular with mid-range end users and gamers. It isn't likely to replace PII/PIII usage in dual-CPU servers. It doesn't have the cache to knock the Xeon out of high-end servers. And Fortune xxxx MIS directors aren't likely to change their "play it safe and buy Intel" mindset any time soon. Where does it fit? Craig