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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Kashish King who wrote (31427)4/8/1998 1:13:00 PM
From: Ali Chen  Read Replies (1) of 1571973
 
Rod, your "AMD bearism" is really funny.

1. First your buddies argued that AMD could never make K6-233MHz.

2. When the K6-233 appeared in stores they claimed them
"volt-jacked" because of poor process technology
(forgetting of course that this is quite typical for
industry: Intel 486-33 vere 3.3V but 486-50
and 486-66 were 5V).

3. Then they said AMD can never get 266MHz. When K6-266
appeared in IBM Aptivas "AMD bears" pronounced them as
non-issue and just an experimental production.

4. Then "bears" complained that due to low production
AND HIGH DEMAND, some AMD customers were cut off -
CyberMax (or whatever).

5. When K6-266 started to flood distribution channels
(>20 mail distributors as per today) you said that all
this yield resolution issue is just a rumor, "Phantoms"
or remarked Pentiums (my own Furst April joke), and
"bears" need some official confirmation.

6. When the confirmation came, you are complaining
that "news of the so-called fixed yield problems came
out of Jerry Sanders mouth."

Now you are saying that the K6-266 availability is due
to WEAK DEMAND. Remember #4 ? Funny, is not it?

Today you failed to comprehend that K6-266 and K6-300
are not "outdated .35 micron process" parts but already
* 0.25 um,
* low voltage and mobile ready,
* 100MHz-bus ALi, SiS and VIA supported,
* routinely overclockable to 375MHz
* (and most likely will be officially produced at
350 and 400MHz speed grades).
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