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To: Dan3 who wrote (111484)	9/27/2000 3:26:09 PM
From: greg s	of 186894

Dan3, RE:AMD's 29K series "bit slice" processors You stated that "AMD's 29K series "bit slice" processors were used in early mainframes and supercomputers". This is very misleading and akin to saying that Intel supported the desk-top calculator with a 386 back in 1971 instead of the 4004. The 29K architecture was introduced in the mid-80's and met it's demise in the '90's because AMD could no longer afford the care and feeding of two major 32-bit architectures. Reference: From AMD's WEBsite amd.com 1984-1989 - Weathering Hard Times AMD celebrated its 15th year with one of the best sales years in company history. In the months following AMD's anniversary, employees received record-setting profit sharing checks and celebrated Christmas with musical group Chicago in San Francisco and Joe King Carrasco and the Crowns in Texas. By 1986, however, the tides of change had swept the industry. Japanese semiconductor makers came to dominate the memory markets--up until now a mainstay for AMD--and a fierce downturn had taken hold of the computer market, limiting demand for chips in general. AMD, along with the rest of the semiconductor industry, began looking for new ways to compete in an increasingly difficult environment. By 1989, Jerry Sanders was talking about transformation: changing the entire company to compete in new markets. AMD began building its submicron capability with the Submicron Development Center. FLASHBACK 1984--Construction begins on the Bankok facility. 1984--Construction begins on Bldg. 2 in Austin. 1984--AMD is listed in "The 100 Best Companies to Work for in America" book. 1985--AMD makes list of Fortune 500 for first time. 1985--Fabs 14 and 15 begin operation in Austin. 1985--AMD launches the Liberty Chip campaign. 1986--The 29300 family 0f 32-bit chips is introduced. 1986--AMD introduces the industry's first 1-million-bit EPROM. October 1986--Weakened by the long-running recession, AMD announces its first workforce restructure in over a decade. September 1986--Tony Holbrook named president of the company. 1987--AMD establishes a CMOS technology with Sony. April 1987--AMD initiates arbitration action against Intel. April 1987--AMD and Monolithic Memories Inc. agree to merge. October 1988--SDC groundbreaking. What really powered those early mainframes: tasc.com Note: (The AMD 29000 or 29K is another RISC CPU descended from the Berkeley RISC design(and the IBM 801 project), as a modern successor to the earlier 2900 bitslice series (beginning around 1981)). In the interest of historical accuracy (which I was a part of) ...... Greg.

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