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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (74760)10/9/1999 4:25:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (2) of 1572957
 
Jimmy,

Re:"It appears that...
1. AMD had too much faith in Taiwan mobomakers despite a prototype motherboard and a chipset.
2. AMD didn't want to step on the Taiwan motherboard makers toes.
3. For their altruistic motives they got screwed by the "cut coners",
chicken ship' Taiwan motherboard makers. "

I think you are being too kind.

Intel runs their business with an iron fist.

AMD has known that the taiwan MB/Chipset guys are flakes. It has taken them forever to get the socket super 7 MBs up to quality - almost 2 years by my reckoning.

These idiots can spend $1.9Bn on a fab that will be sitting idle and yet they can't spend $50Mn on a million MBs to get this product out right.

They have to step on the taiwan MB suppliers toes they have no choice.

Now they are in the ridicolous position of relying on VIA for its next generation chip sets - and pretty soon VIA will be a major competitor in the low end.

The design guys have done an awesome job, but this management just plain sucks.

regards,

Kash
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