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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Dave Parr who wrote (5021)2/1/1997 2:31:00 PM
From: greg nus   of 1576605
 
Greeting Dave Parr, Other on this thread may be more useful to answere your questions? My knowledge is limited. This is all from memory.

The k-5 was AMD first shot at a CPU design without influence from Intel. Prior to AMD operating under liscence from Intel used some of intel design and coding plus i'ts own reverse engineering efforts to build a better 486 and below generatoins. K-5 was an AMD home grown product. AMD underestimated the difficulty of the task which caused delays to market. Lower clock speed K-5 were not significantly better than Intel, but improvement came with higher clock speed CPU's. The next gen team may have had some influience,because they were within the sphier of influience and able to contribute. I have not seen anything denoting the K-5 team breakup. Since the K-5 is still inproduction and future versions are expected to release it is locical to assume the team has plenty of workto do.

My impresion is that the design teams work in California at the AMD Research center. And that the nextgen people have moved in with AMD'ers, for synergism.

My impression is that the K-7 team is an all nextgen team.
I understood the layoff affected some nextgeners who had completed their assignments and sone Austin AMD'ers, who's product lines had been declared obsolete. I hope this helps. That is all.
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