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

To: Charles R who wrote (70456)	8/31/1999 2:05:00 PM
From: Rick Jones	Respond to of 1574127

<What about stable and functioning chipsets and mobos???? > This is reflected in the current pricing and shipment status. I am not sure I understand if you mean something more. Can you elaborate? Chuck Charles, I was only trying to point out that AMD's chance of success with K7 is just as dependent on infrastructure for the CPU as it is on their ability to make the CPU in volume. This is MUCH different than their previous efforts (AM386, AM486, K5, K6) where all they had to do was plug their processors into existing, stable, high volume sockets and motherboards. Bottom line - how does AMD translate their (still unproven) ability to manufacture K7 in volume into stable running (still unproven)systems? If they do BOTH of these, they have a chance. If they do just one, it's AMF AMD. Two articles which sheds some light on this issue: News Report: Success of Athlon Depends upon Motherboards By Dean Kent, Real World Technologies (Dean's Bio) realworldtech.com Micro-Star to Recall Motherboards for AMD's Athlon Chips August 30, 1999 (TOKYO) -- Taiwan's Micron-Star International Co., Ltd. (MSI) will recall its motherboards for U.S.-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD)'s Athlon microprocessors. nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Rick