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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (67456)	8/3/1999 11:01:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574430

<My definition of volume shipment would certainly require product to be available on the open market.> So this is your definition, right? But then you wrote: <There could be Athlon systems available tomorrow for all I know, but I wouldn't count on it.> So, you have your definition but you disagree with it. Just great! <The foreseeable future for AMD is anybody's guess.> I did not ask you for "anybody" guess, I asked you. It is apparent that you prefer to left this "definition" so open that later you can continue to bash AMD no matter what, to support your little "investments on the short side". <there is no evidence that the MIA-thlon will be available as a product in the next few weeks> As we saw, you have no definition of "product", and no time frame (see above). Therefore why you put "few weeks"? Why not "few hours"? Or "few minutes"? That would be cool; imagine your cries: "AMD fail to deliver Athlons according to my definitions"! <In my view, there is no evidence... > There is a saying: when a person's horizon shrinks down to infinitesimally small range, it is called a "point of view". That's where you apparently are. <What does foreseeable future mean? An example would be Intel's 600MHz PIII. They didn't pre-announce but the rumors were out there. Yet was there any question in anyones mind that systems would be available today? In fact systems were available before Intel announced availability. Can anyone express the same confidence that MIA-thlons will be available next week, or any time this month? The foreseeable future is visible for Intel.> This is clear enough. Intel is above the all, heil Intel! Understandable. AMD "rumor" is not equal to Intel "rumor". So, systems must available before announcement, right? Maybe you also would require that profits should be available before product development? This is very close to your answer I guessed :) If AMD would be bigger than a fraction of Intel, you could have rights to expect the same confidence in product delivery. Until then your rambling "requirements" are just ridiculous as we just saw above. But if AMD would be bigger than Intel, you would probably be posting on Intel thread aggressively "questioning" 2-year Merced delay, snooping bugs, failure to deliver the expected performance in 0.18u technology, etc etc.