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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: greg nus who wrote (5030)2/1/1997 3:49:00 PM
From: Dave Parr   of 1576599
 
Greg, I hope you are right about the Nexgen people having moved in with the AMD'ers. I have done reverse Engineering in the mechanical field and found that much can be learned by analyzing someone else's designs. The "good and bad" aspects of the design are usually uncovered through the reverse Engineering process. Therefore the resulting product may actually be better than the product being copied by not using the bad aspects of the design.

I'm guessing the problem that AMD encountered was the "original thinking" required to design a chip from the ground up. You do not get this experience from reverse Engineering. On the other hand Nexgen had been designing chips from their own concepts.

My thinking is the combination of both different backgrounds may result in a team that may be able to design a processor that may be even better than ........well I guess we'll have to wait and see.

.....Thanks for the info

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