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To: Marco Polo who wrote (60087)	6/1/1999 1:17:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578132

Re: "First benchmarks so-so? It sure has performed a lot better than the PIII, wouldn't you say??" No I wouldn't say. Of the several benchmarks that have appeared, The K7 was faster than the PIII on some but slower on some as well. In general the K7 benchmarks seen were disappointing, to say the least. In addition, the K7 will be competing against the Coppermine, not so much the PIII and they won't always have the luxuary of running Win98 only benchmarks. EP

To: Marco Polo who wrote (60087)	6/1/1999 1:24:00 PM
From: Burt Masnick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578132

Re"it's possible that neither will turn a profit this next year. I half agree with you. AMD just about can't show a profit this year. Interesting that you think Intel will show $8,000,000,000 profit this year and $0 the next. You have just discovered the best short going. Go for it. Yeah - sorry about the benchmarks. They are in some cases somewhat better than the PIII and in some cases worse than the PIII. As I said they are preliminary and who knows what generation system config was used (although AMD has played somewhat sneaky in providing hyped up systems to reviewers in the past). But by no means were the first benchmarks screaming advertisements for the K7 since rough equity with the PIII performance ain't gonna cut it in AMDs current state. And keep your eye out for the real tell - the tier one boxmakers selecting the K7 for their showboat products this fall. If they buy in, then all that's left is for AMD to make them in volume at a profit with plausible yields and bin splits - clearly no need for concern there cause, heck, AMD's just a producin' powerhouse.