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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (41038)11/7/1998 11:37:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1570910
 
Paul,
I got this from one of Kevins posts.
"Guidance continues to be that AMD will will introduce K6-3
(Sharptooth) later in Q4. Given a production lead time of
approximately 89 days (3 months), it will likely be Q2 before we
can find machines at retail.".......

Obviously this Toni Beckham is misinformed even though shes the something or other in customer relations.
Considering a wafer at AMD takes about 10 weeks from start to finish, since when is AMD going to announce a chip at the time of wafer production? You announce a chip when it close or or ready to ship in volume. If AMD is going to announce the K6-3 in the 4th quarter then it should already be in production...which I believe it to be. <hint>
I don't know where she's coming up with this 89 day stuff. Certainly the boxmakers don't need a 3 month lead time to put a chip on a motherboard and stuff it in a box. That takes about 20 minutes.
Sounds like she doesn't know what she's talking about or AMD has instructed her to play oppossum.
Jim
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