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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Elmer who wrote (26066)11/21/1997 1:19:00 AM
From: Yousef  Read Replies (1) of 1584139
 
Elmer,

Re: "These guys are behind on the technology curve, their quality
levels are poor, and their costs are higher. They're simply not competative in the CPU
business."

You are exactly right with your comments ... TSMC, Chatered, Tower ...
are just ASIC silicon foundries. These ASIC foundries offer IC processes
that have mid-performance FET's coupled with dense interconnect technology.
This type of process would be difficult for AMD to "port" their design
AND have anywhere near acceptable performance.

I have personally visited both TSMC and Chartered and I agree with your
comments on cost, quality and the fact that these two foundries are a
minimum of 1 full generation behind Intel in technology.

Make It So,
Yousef
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