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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Process Boy who wrote (64743)7/11/1999 9:57:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson  Read Replies (2) of 1582642
 
PB, The employee circles/meetings you attend are a good concept. Often these circles get co-opted by alpha types who use ridicule and other coercions to shout down ideas they hate and promote their own ideas. If wrong ideas get promoted as the best...then Rambus prospers. So if many people in upper manglement have Rambus shares they will promote Rambus for selfish reasons, not technical reasons.
Now that is what should not be permitted...conflict of purpose from within. To make Rambus shares fly they sabotage their employer, Intel. Privacy says you cannot oversee what shares employees hold, unless they are over 5% of shares out, and I am sure no-one has 5% of Rambus and works for Intel.
Away from rambus. Similar mistakes can happen if top dogs shout down those at the bottom who know what they are doing(witness Challenger). Most managers become divorced from the leading edge of tech as they rise and thus lose the ability to properly chose from among several competing technologies. They then rely on minions, who themselves may be too far back from the leading edge.
To what degree has this happened in AMD/Intel ? It looks like Jerry has good minions who are on the edge and makes good tech decisions. He lets the cooks make the dinner.
What about Intel, Rambus and Merced are teo problems right now. Will Rambus ever work?, or will it become superseded by other memory tech before it gets the high ground and thus becomes a footnote in history? What about merced and lower size/complexity/crosstalk issues? is it solvable? or has another limit been reached....a new limit we knew nothing about 'till now?

Bill
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