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To: Amy J who wrote (115316)10/31/2000 9:54:51 AM
From: Elmer   of 186894
 
Re: "Avtar is extremely bright in engineering. He was a design manager for the Pentium and then he headed up the Pentium II, MMX engineering - he was in charge of Intel's second most important product. He was also the original leader of Merced and he evidently left it in excellent shape. (Unfortunately, the fella who lead Merced in its middle phase is no longer with Intel.) I never heard of Avtar doing anything technically wrong - the Valley is a small world - I have a lot of contacts that know him"

If I have unfairly singled out Avatar then I'm sorry. I tried to point out the fact that he was the head of the chipset group at the time but I don't know who was giving him his marching orders. RamBus was never the best thing that happened to Intel. When Avtar left, things may have looked good to the outside world but internally it looked much like when Vin Dham resigned for "personal reasons".

Re: "Since Avtar never failed at anything, maybe he is the person responsible for not having a backup plan. Although, I would wonder why the person who took over didn't create one"

Why didn't the executive staff demand one? That's the question. As for his replacement creating a backup plan, those things don't happen overnight. Solano could have been a year or more earlier.

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