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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Bill Jackson who wrote (84319)12/29/1999 5:50:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 1577179
 
Bill,

The skills that AMD gained from nexgen may have been critical in getting so far so fast. AMD might have a more elegant set of development, emulation and test methods.AMD may have a more creative environment than Intel

I would attribute the fast development of Athlon to several factors:

1. The architecture was largely taken from the 21264.

2. The pipeline was architected to be simple and evenly balanced.

3. The methodology was carefully thought out in advance by Dirk Meyer and the Austin design team.

It is unlikely that the Nexgen experience had much to do with Athlon's success, other than avoiding the mistakes of K6. K7 was designed mostly in Austin, away from the vagaries of Nexgen. The big question is "will K8 be as screwed up as K6?" given that it is being designed in California.

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