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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Dale J. who wrote (38201)10/5/1998 3:27:00 PM
From: Maxwell  Read Replies (1) of 1574854
 
Dale J.:

<<You and the other AMDers seem more confident about AMD. I mean you guys have always shown unwavering and irrational support for AMD, but lately you seem more vigorous in your defense of AMD. >>

I am confident on AMD because their manufacturing problem is of the past. AMD has been able to crank out HUGE VOLUME of K6-2 at good speed. It also appears that K6-2-450MHz and K6-3-450MHz is cakewalk.
Furthermore K7 is well ahead of schedule and will beat Xeon performance in all benchmark. There is no need for me to defend AMD.
AMD has proven that it can handle the 800lbs gorilla.

<<Is your newfound confidence in AMD because of K7? On Oct 15 AMD is just going to talk about the K7. right? It is still a long ways from mass production. Right? >>

The most important thing in bringing out new chip is to get a clean silicon without bug. The next is to get the benchmark and the final step is to get the speed up. Once that is done you are about 6 months from mass production. AMD achieved first silicon on K6 in Sept. 1996 and launched the product in April 1997.

<<Also, I thought it was your opinion that the K7 won't compete with XEON.>>

If Xeon is the fastest thing on the market for Intel K7 will eat market share from Intel big time.

Maxwell
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