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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (58258)5/15/1999 6:38:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (2) of 1571985
 
Cirruslvr,
About 8 weeks ago AMD made a nice jump in yields and speeds. This was over the K6 line. This is filtering through now. K6-2s will soon be at 500 and K6-III-450s are becoming readily available.
Too bad this didn't happen 3 months ago. This wouldn't be so evident if Intel wasn't such a tough competitor. Just a 3 month glitch/delay sent AMD into a $128M loss. Remains to be seen if the K7 design can leap far enough ahead to buy AMD the time to ramp it up. Seems like a better chance than they had with the K6-III since the K6 FPU will never be as fast as the P6 core. Meanwhile Intel still has the high end and the profits. The K7 will be the most serious threat to Intels dominance since the AMD386-40 if not, ever.

Jim
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