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

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (71430)	9/8/1999 8:08:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575771

Re: "So you think the Athlon will just "go away" now? <G> " No, I think the Athlon will eventually be a fine system. However keeping to form, AMD continues to do what they do best, mismatch designs with available technology. The K6 family was a good design ahead of their fab technology, hence the 100s of $millions lost. The Athlon is a excellent design that doesn't match up with the available manufacturing technology. This time it's motherboards (supposedly). and we have yet to see if AMDs process can support it at a profit. All this underscores the mismanagement that has been in place for years. They just don't understand the difference between a design and a product. I don't think they ever will. Customers buy products but AMD just does designs. Intel knows that a good but not necessarily excellent design can become a great product. AMD and their loyal followers will never figure this out. EP