Albert - Re:"For all of you guys who supported Paul in his honest efforts to contribute to amd thread,..."
You continue to take everything to a personal level and attack, like a caged animal, those who disagree with you or post information which conflicts with your view of the world order.
Specifically, the posting that you referrred to (one that I made on the Intel thread) makes one reference to AMD - about their sampling another five K6 chips.
This refers to the PCWEEK article from last week by Lisa DiCarlo (a highly regarded journalist for this magazine) who quoted AMD personnel admitting that fewer than five customers/partners were sampled with the K6 chip.
For your reference, the URL is as follows:
pcweek.com
I will list the text below, for your convenience.
My reference to the K6 sampling was based on this AMD quote. Your reaction, typical for you, I might add, was NOT to investigate the fact that ONLY FIVE K6/customers were sampled but to launch into a personal attack. So typical of how your mind works!
My original intent was to post this article here on the AMD thread. However, I figured it might be construed in the wrong way, perhaps inflammatory to AMD forum affcionados. So, I decided I wouldn't attempt to offend anyone in this manner.
Instead, I kept my comments (factual, at least according to the PC trade press) to the Intel thread. Thank you, Albert, for lurking over their, reading one thing without checking out the facts, then posting (as is your common custom) personal attacks because you didn't like the content of that post - regardless of its validity.
Well, there you again, Albert!
Paul
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From PC Week copyright acknowledged -
November 20, 1996 6:00 PM ET
AMD offers peek at K6
processor with MMX
By Lisa DiCarlo
LAS VEGAS-Advanced Micro
Devices Inc., still trying to heal deep
wounds inflicted by long delays with its
Pentium-class K5 processor, showed
for the first time its next-generation K6
chip with MMX instructions here at Comdex.
AMD, which licensed the MMX (multimedia extension)
instruction set from Intel Corp., announced last week it
has begun sampling the processor.
Officials for the Austin, Texas, company said the
sampling program encompasses mostly BIOS and
other software vendors. They declined to name which
PC makers are sampling the part, but put the number
of companies at fewer than five.
The sampling process, which often lasts months, is the
time when compatibility and other bugs are uncovered
and fixed. AMD officials said they do not expect many
problems, and production should commence in late
March.
The officials acknowledged that AMD must overcome a
serious "once bitten, twice shy" issue with PC makers,
many of whom were optimistic about AMD's K5
processor. The K5, delayed more than a year, was
released at slow clock speeds compared with
competitive parts from Intel, of Santa Clara, Calif.
Nevertheless, AMD is hoping its underdog status,
consistently lower prices and perceived need for Intel
alternatives will help carry it forward.
"People are rooting for us," said Vinod Dham, group
vice president and general manager of AMD's
Computation Products Group. Customers "are happy
with Intel [processors], but that may erode away when
we've got cheaper, competitive parts.''
Intel, which is expected to release the Pentium
Processor with MMX Technology on Jan. 8, will beat
AMD to market by at least three months.
Among the PC makers demonstrating Intel-based
MMX desktops and notebooks here at the show are
Digital Equipment Corp., IBM Personal Computer Co.,
AST Research Inc. and NEC Technologies Inc.
AMD is also developing an integrated processor for
the emerging but still vaporous "thin-client" market that
might include communications, graphics and video
features, said Atiq Raza, the company's chief technical
officer and senior vice president.
The third major X86 processor company, Cyrix Corp.,
is being publicly quiet this week about its MMX
processor, initially dubbed M2. The Richardson, Texas,
company is expected to begin sampling by mid-1997. |
