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To: Brian Hutcheson who wrote (41336)	11/12/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) of 1572122

Re: "Good point but If they do the market has shown that it will embrace it already with the acceptance of socket 7 K6." The K7 faces a far more difficult problem than the K6 did. The K7 will need to run with an entirely new (for AMD) bus architecture. AMD will need to validate both the processor AND the chipset. This is a huge task. The amount of simulation and system level validation is enormous, even for a single processor system. If AMD wants to play in the SMP arena (and apparently they do) the validation work increases geometrically. If they are going to play in the big leagues they will have to pay their dues and that takes lots of time working the bugs out. This is the main reason I don't believe AMD is close to having a product. They may demo, they may even post some benchmarks but in my view they won't ship product for quite some time. There's just too much work to do getting it right. EP

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