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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: crazyoldman who wrote (89040)1/23/2000 1:12:00 AM
From: Charles R   of 1573984
 
crazyoldman,

Welcome to the thread.

<At first I thought it strange that AMD would choose the K6 since at that time Jerry Sanders's press release stated something on the order of ...Even though the future of AMD rests on the K7 the first copper K6 was produced for copper qualification.>

This may have to do with improving K6-3 speed grades. May also have something to do with benchmarking Fab30 with Fab25 using an established part.

<I had the fortune to meet and visit with an AMD California employee in November. When I asked what he was working on he said, "testing a K6". Copper? Reply, yes. From Dresden?Reply, yes.>

I expect to see very few new mainstream or performance processor products comeup on Fab25 as the fab rampsup Flash. Once Fab30 is up the bin split disadvantages of Fab25 will make it difficult to build mainstream PC processors there.

<In view of the more recent news of the Microsoft xbox and rumors of low thermal possibilities I'm wondering if this the reason that the first Dresden part was K6. Is it possible that Microsoft's xbox deal could have been in the works last summer? >

Since the rumors on the X-box surfaced around September/October time frame, the deal would definitely be a consideration in the summer time frame that you refer to.

Chuck
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