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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Process Boy who wrote (65638)7/15/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: Greater Fool  Read Replies (2) of 1574122
 
>>The results.

Well, bad results don't mean it was a bad business plan. Had AMD executed correctly in manufacturing in 1997 during the initial ramp, the situation might be quite a bit different. The manufacturing stumbles weren't part of the business plan.

One of the real flaws I saw in AMD's strategy was to pursue the unwanted K6-3 instead of fixing the FPU or perhaps reengineering the part for higher clock speeds.

But to accuse AMD of hubris is not quite right. While AMD didn't have to publicly announce the discount, the processors did have to be priced aggressively to ensure the sales volume would be ramped. If the processors hadn't been discounted, nobody would have adopted them.
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