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

To: kash johal who wrote (68952)8/16/1999 7:32:00 PM
From: Charles R  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572807
 
Kash,

"The requirement that they not use AThlon is highly unlikely"

I am in agreement with you on this one.

I have a feeling the deal was lost on motherboard availability. Hell, AMD hasn't even been able to ramp Compaq and IBM so far - why add another one they can't support. As long as they can get Gateway back by Christmas, they wouldn't lose much.

<In addition perhaps u can comment on why AMD is not having the motherboards manufactured for Athlon. The current roll out stinks to high heaven.>

Share the sentiment - not as strongly - but nevertheless...
Not to be an armchair critic but it amazes me that they couldn't do better on probably the most important product launch in AMD's history.

Chuck



To: kash johal who wrote (68952)8/17/1999 11:20:00 AM
From: Steve Porter  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 1572807
 
Kash,

AMD isn't making their own motherboard for the K7 because they don't want MB vendors to think that AMD is going to pull an Intel (you know, crush the MB vendors out of the market place).

As for the rumour, everything I have heard is that the bundles or contingent on the company not using Athlon processors. I'm not sure if it is illegal or not, but none the less thought it was worth mentioning.

Steve

PS. Don't shoot the messenger.


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