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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: that_crazy_doug who wrote (108295)4/28/2000 3:44:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1581612
 
RE:"I think AMD couldn't compete because the k6-2 and k6-3 line weren't worth buying.
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I dissagree. The K6 line is fine. It just wouldn't scale and yield as well as a P6 core. The FPU was weaker and Intel was hyping that to the hilt.
The whole thing turned around when AMD built a chip based on "MHz sells" (TM-McMannis) and a strong FPU.
Now all Intel can do is hype and grovel until Willy.

Jim
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