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To: Elmer who wrote (127137)	11/1/2000 5:27:08 PM
From: stribe30	Read Replies (1) of 1570871

"It is apparently much MUCH harder to design in SMP capability on this superior bus architecture." As stated this morning.. the "problem" or delay is not technological or architetural, but waiting to get the proper partner(s)in place. iXBT Labs is reporting separately that AMD felt it would be a waste to release the SMP version without getting proper motherboards and CPU's in place (Mustang and boards for it)for usage in the server sector. Is it a slip..?? sure.. but AMD has had such a good 12 months since the release of the Athlon, they were due to have 1 or two slip-ups.. no one's perfect ;) Now.. if it were a slip-up of the Merced magnitude - in development for 7 years or 8 or whatever it is now.. THEN I'd be concerned. Then again.. I dont own stock in it.. so it doesnt bother me either way from a hardware guy point of view, other then I want AmD to get strong enough and take enough market share from Intel that it loses its semi-monopolistic position and cant try to force another Rambus debacle on the hardware world. Competition is good.

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