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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (57147)5/4/1999 12:09:00 PM
From: Tony Viola  Read Replies (1) of 1572405
 
Scumbria,

Try putting this in your pipe and smoking it. K6-2 increased in the last 8 months
from 300 MHz to 475 MHz, a 60% improvement without a process jump. K7 will
get at least 1 process jump during it's first 8 months.

Should we expect any of the attendant problems on K7, that Sanders mentioned in the recent article on what went wrong with K6-2 when AMD tried to keep up with Intel:

Because AMD decided to play the raw MHz game, Sanders
admitted that yields were affected. "To support our customers,
we pushed both our process technology and our AMD-K6-2
processor design to achieve maximum clock speed...Tuning the
process and the design to achieve maximum clock speed while
maintaining acceptable yields is an ongoing challenge that
ideally involves a series of engineering iterations to achieve
optimum results.

"Pushed by Intel to match an ever-faster pace of new product
introductions, and pulled by the demands of our largest
customers for competitive higher-clock-speed devices, we
encountered yield problems last December that carried over into
the first eight weeks of 1999 with a devastating impact on our
aggregate production in the first quarter," he said.

I personally would not bet against Murphy's law getting enforced again as applied to AMD's processing prowess: whatever can go wrong, will go wrong. Who in their right mind could expect anything else?

Tony
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