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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tony Viola who wrote (37980)10/2/1998 10:59:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (3) of 1572678
 
Tony,

The key here is that the SMP, RAS issues have already been adressed by the ALpha design team.

So what this means is that the K7 and the Alpha CPU's will be interchangeable.

In fact Alpha workstations have been in design and manufacturing for for many years.

Just look at all the problems Intel is having with the Xeon / Chipsets etc. curently.

The beauty of the K7 is the slot A and the fact that they can rely on many years of system design that the DEC guys put in place.

Now, if you are implying that AMD's chips will have much lower reliability than Intels then you are mistaken. The CPU's from any of the major semiconductor vendors today are far more reliable than most of the other components such as Hard Drives, Power supplies etc.

Or perhaps you have been taken in by Pauleron's BS regarding AMD making inferior chips because they are CHEAPER.

Regards,

Kash
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