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To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (81825)	5/27/1999 5:45:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (7) \| Respond to of 186894

Brian, You are so right. They've been enormously successful for 25 years; how can they possibly keep this up with the billions of cash they have in the bank? Intel has been selling CPUs for $500 for as long as I can remember. Your sarcasm doesn't change the fact that $100 CPUs is a new business for them, and that the whole pricing scale is collapsing. Nor does it change the fact that there are lots of competitors who are perfectly content to sell CPUs for $100. Scumbria

To: Proud_Infidel who wrote (81825)	5/27/1999 6:07:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Brian, speaking of scorched, see review of the AMD K7 (actually second article about it, from "Thresh's Firing Squad"): Front page: firingsquad.com Page on power supply problem. From various sources, we've heard that AMD is having a hell of a time supplying clean power to the K7, as is evident by the huge silver heatsink behind the slot. That's not a CPU there, these fins are cooling the voltage regulators on the motherboard, which supply the juice for the CPU and keep the signal stable and reliable. Obviously, the author is a CPU guy and doesn't know much from power (never hold that against him, though). I'm having a real power engineer look at it (if he could surmise anything just from the pictures). firingsquad.com Tony