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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Terje Oseberg who wrote (683)7/10/1996 7:44:00 PM
From: mz001   of 1586539
 
Terje,

Even though the information here is not top secret it is still considered not in the public pool of knowledge (so don't go gangbusters and tell everyone you know). First off FAB 25 is doing something (manufacturing K5's). AMD last month began shipping the AMD-K5-PR100 processor, a 100 MHz Pentium plug-in replacement that provides Microsoft Windows and x86 software compatibility (the price is $84 per chip in 1000 piece quantities). There is no way that AMD could manufacture processors for Cyrix due to the fact that FAB 25 is manufacturing at full capacity right now (actually only half of the fab is fully operational, the other half is being brought up online). So I seriously doubt that your attempt to sway anybody with this idea will work. Also, as I know it, doesn't IBM already make Cyrix's chips for them? Why would they want to use AMD's manufacturing process? THere are also some technical considerations as well. FAB 25 is designed to manufacture what AMD has designed, to suddenly start manufacturing a whole new complex microprocessor from another company would take months to qualify for volume production. So if I haven't discouraged you yet go ahead and see what you can do but don't get your hopes up.
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