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To: gammaray who wrote (5285)	4/24/1998 2:03:00 PM
From: Gutterball	Read Replies (2) of 14464

Here is what an industry analyst said about Alpha for AMD... "It's a positive for AMD," said Mark Edelstone, a Morgan Stanley analyst in San Francisco. He said that in its next generation processor, the K7, AMD had announced plans to use the Alpha's bus technology. A bus enables faster communications between the processor and other components in a PC. "Had Intel sole rights to the technology, that might have erected potential roadblocks (for AMD)," he said. Here's what AMD has to say... A spokesman for Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD said AMD already has negotiated the rights to the Alpha bus for its K7 chip but that the possibility of getting rights to the Alpha processor technology is very exciting for the company. "They have great technology and we have great technology and this will give us an opportunity to work with both and blend them and create something that is just outstanding," AMD spokesman Scott Allen said. He said he could not be specific about what AMD's plans would be with Alpha because the FTC decision caught everyone at his company by surprise. "We are not talking about any specifics until the deal becomes official," he said. In addition, Digital must begin the process of certifying International Business Machines Corp. or another commission-approved agency as an alternate producer of Alpha chips. Here some comments from IBM... IBM spokesman Tom Beerman said it was "the first we've heard of the ruling, so we're not prepared to evaluate whether we want to produce the chip."

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