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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Len Roselli who wrote (3757)12/10/1996 10:29:00 PM
From: jayhawk969   of 1579568
 
Len,

I agree with your comments. The outstanding issues I see are:

1. The K-6 has almost twice the transistors as the Pentium-Pro. Logic would dictate that the increased complexity decreases the probabilility of a chip functioning as conceptually designed(bug-free). Only extensive bench and market testing will prove that the K-6 is bug free.
2. The functioning of the chip is only 1/2 the issue, the complexity also speaks to manufacturing. New Fab, new designer, new technology licensed from IBM, a whole lot of "news".

Yes I believe AMD may be combining design and manufacturing expertise.
However, lets face it, everything is riding on the K-6 and one major fault and the boat sinks.

I am convince of the potential prowess of the K-6. I would like to hear more feedback from trials. The manufacturing feedback will have to wait. I personally see the risk as very high and the reward as high. I am not yet convinced that the reward outweighs the risk.

J. D.
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