Albert,
re: < rather that amd used suffer more than it should because Jerry consistently misguided public expectations. >
I don't view Jerry's failures in meeting his guidance during K6 days as misguidance. He took some risks, and failed against a formidable competition. When you have just one product, and technologically behind a well trenched competition, you take risks to catch up with the competition. National Semi, IDTI, Rise, etc; all promised higher speed CPUs. but they all failed to deliver. All the respective company CEOs took their chances, and placed their bets on their engineers. All failed, and simply got out of Intel's way under internal, shareholders, and market pressure. Sanders, and AMD engineers failed too (here I give the credit to Intel), but Sanders continued to provide more opportunities to AMD's engineers giving raise to the current situation of AMD'a great product portfolio.
< are you trying to say that no one but Jerry can sell k8 to the the market? >
No. Here, I was not referring about selling the product. I was referring to getting k8 into production with the appropriate infrastructure (sw & hw) support from AMD's partners against Intel's hurdles, and tactics to thwart AMD's progress in this regard.
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