Author: Tom Kerrigan
Date: 10:50:22 02/15/00
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On February 15, 2000 at 09:46:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >Tom, read my lips carefully. AMD is _not_ considered a serious competitor for >Intel chips. Look at the volume. Look at the demand. Like it or not, the If you said this a few months ago, I would have agreed. Athlons were easy to get back then, but getting an Athlon motherboard was almost impossible. (Intel was using its leverage with Taiwanese mobo vendors to keep them from making Athlon mobos.) The situation since then has improved dramatically, even though Intel is using bullying tactics to keep VIA from selling their Athlon chipset. I think that comparing Athlon market share to PIII market share right now is inappropriate. Gateway has been selling PIIIs forever, but only started selling Athlons a few (2?) weeks ago. Check Gateway's web site. Their 850MHz Athlon is almost $1000 cheaper than their 800MHz PIII, and it has almost exactly the same "extras." I'm sure consumers won't ignore this. Hopefully the Willamette (demonstrated today) will be much better than the Athlon. But we'll have to wait a while to see, and I'm not holding my breath. Personally, I like the idea of using a chip designed by the same people responsible for the 21264 and the PA8000... (ie, the Athlon) -Tom BTW, Bob, I don't appreciate the snide little phrases that preface your posts. Like "Tom, please." and "Tom, read my lips carefully." Do you really need to make condescension part of your debate strategy? Hmmmm....
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