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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Paul Engel who wrote (59127)5/21/1999 4:50:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) of 1582710
 
RE:"In retrospect, it indicates that AMD's design approach is heavily flawed -
especially in light of the LATE & S L O W Kmart 63 "ramp" !"...
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How does this apply to the K7?
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RE:"Intel's approach - using the P6 core over and over - has allowed them greater
opportunities for "quick" success.

Mendocino was essentially production worthy on first silicon.

Dixon was also - but was tweaked for lower power at high speed.

Coppermine first silicon has very minimal problems on first silicon - and a minor metal
mask tweak will fix that problem.

Chip sets are another story. Camino was a real learning experience - not so much from a
logic design standpoint, but from an electrical interface to a very high speed, poorly
characterized DRDRAM bus structure - with all the attendant problems of transmission
line issues."...

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Sounds very reasonable to me as I have suggested this many times in the past.
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