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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Ali Chen who wrote (37508)9/27/1998 12:41:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1572107
 
Re: "You mean yourself as an expert in cache designs but the obvious thing escaped your precious attention: K6 had no L2 cache controller. Have you any idea how complex is the MESI protocol? "

It's hard to understand why AMD would be having so much trouble designing something this simple. A cache controller shouldn't take this long. A couple of steppings should be plenty to do the trick but AMD has had more than enough time to do 5-7 or more steppings. I think this is just more confirmation of the mass exodus of design engineers from AMD as well as a suggestion that perhaps all may not be as smooth as they would have us believe at their fabs, oops, I mean fab. Low pay, worthless options and bad moral are taking their toll.

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