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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Greater Fool who wrote (85927)1/7/2000 8:49:00 PM
From: Y. Samuel Arai  Read Replies (1) of 1572500
 
>Makes one wonder why AMD jumped so vigorously into doing a
>carded Athlon. It screams "me too". Now they have to
>develop yet another infrastructure for socketed Athlon.
>I'm pretty sure there was some good reason for doing that
>at the time -- maybe it was the difficulty of doing an on-
>chip L2; maybe it was the current consumption of Athlon.

Slot-A existed before the Athlon. They use Slot-A with the DEC (Compaq) Alpha CPUs. AMD figured it would be better to go with an existing slot design, than to create one from scratch.
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