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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (51660)3/4/1999 8:47:00 PM
From: wily  Read Replies (1) of 1572928
 
Matt, the author of the K7 Preview article replied to you through me via email. He asked me to post his response here:

I can't reply on SI or figure out the posters' email addresses, but
I can say this:

An 18-month figure _was_ quoted. I may have been incorrect in saying
that it will have taken 18 months from initial concept to final
shipping product. What is more likely is 18 months from the start of
chip (that is, the circuits that make up the chip) design. In any
case, it was one of the MAIN POINTS of the lecture that the chip was
finished MUCH more quickly than most microprocessors are. There were
MIT EE professors in the room who considered what he said to be
unusually fast, but there were no comments to the nature of "that's
impossible!"

I will be posting an update soon, and I will touch on this in some
detail. If you could post something to the thread saying that I was
planning on making another post soon, I would appreciate it.

--
Matt

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