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To: Marco Polo who wrote (60625)	6/4/1999 8:58:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572807

<Anyhoo, they did not scrap their 25% promise.> I don't feel like digging up the article, but I remember it was on CNet, where an AMD marketing representative said that AMD is no longer going to stick to their 25% discount plan. Instead, they said they were going to price their chips so that the overall system would cost less than a comparable Intel-based system. I posted it a few times last year. <The K6-2 still today sells at 25% less than a Pentium II, as does a K6-III to a PIII.> Not even AMD compares the K6-2 to a Pentium II anymore. And although AMD will still try and position the K6-III against the Pentium III, the low low price of the K6-III, coupled with the low volumes, tells me that it's not doing too well when compared to the high volume, high priced Pentium III. It's my opinion that in reality, K6-2 is positioned against Celeron, K6-III somewhere between Pentium II and Celeron, and K7 against Pentium III. Willamette is too far out there (technology-wise as well as release date) to be pitted against the K7. But then again, it all depends on your definition of "seventh-generation technology." Tenchusatsu