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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (49554)	2/15/1999 10:55:00 AM
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Jim, AMD flunked out I think it is important for people on this thread to understand how CPU companies set their schedules. The most important rule to remember is: If the part was ready for production, it would be in production. The fact that a part is not in production indicates that there are still problems to be resolved. Engineering managers make aggressive estimates about when the unknown problem will be resolved. Their bonuses depend on doing this. Generally speaking, they will miss their goals. Look at K6-3, MXi, Merced, etc. All companies face the same problem. Sometimes they get lucky, and sometimes Intel has the luxury of setting very prolonged schedules. AMD will never get that luxury however. If Intel's competitors didn't set very aggressive schedules, they would go out of business. It was obvious to me last fall, that the descriptions of progress on K6-3 indicated the part was not as far along as people were claiming. Message 6330055 techstocks.com Message 6331714 Message 6332622 The apparent slippages of K6-3 are not a failure on AMD's part. From an engineers point of view, AMD has been doing extremely well. The

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