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

To: Process Boy who wrote (72322)	9/20/1999 2:30:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1572645

PB - RE: "You have just gleaned what would seem to be unthinkable; that one lousy engineer's decisions can cost a company 100's of millions of dollars. Amazing, isn't it?!? And you wonder why I'm tense some days :-). In all seriousness, some poor module schmuck's decisions should be ratified by upper levels of engineering. Sometimes a whole team misses something. These things do happen. Hopefully not very often." My words may have been pretty harsh, but the thing is that I am just stupefied at how AMD was "able" to have two MAJOR screw-ups in 18 months. Maybe it wasn't that engineer or group of engineers's mistake, but it surely was someone or some group's. But someone in their ladder system should have been able catch the problem. Sure, we probably don't hear of the problems they DO catch, but these one or two problems they couldn't catch sure cost a lot. Perhaps it it AMD's management who can't hire or train the proper people. And AMD's historic stock price surely doesn't offer much motivation. This Athlon is a wave of fresh air for AMD. I sincerely hope their previous processor/process problems which polluted the Austin air are now alleviated. (How's that sentence for alliteration!)