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To: Dan3 who wrote (72345)	9/19/1999 1:14:00 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572808

Re: "The only people who should be expected to grovel if Coppermine gets screwed up by Rambus are the pointy headed boss types at Intel who went for the "nothing but rambus, whatever the cost" strategy. (are you out there, Paul?) Certainly not the people who successfully brought out the chips themselves." I hope you're not implying that Paul had any say in Intel's decision to go with Rambus. Otherwise I am beginning to agree with your assessment. To go with a totally new, unproven technology is exactly the kind of desperate thing AMD would do, but I didn't expect it from Intel. Why wasn't there a viable backup plan? Some VP's head will likely roll for that one but at some point in time I'm sure he had to present his "plan" to the executive staff. Why didn't they insist on a fallback plan should Rambus delays threaten processor shipments? I would think a process shrink on the 440BX and some PLL tweaks would require little in the way of resources and still provide a low cost 133MHz FSB-AGP solution. I wonder if they're burning the midnight oil in Folsom right now? EP

To: Dan3 who wrote (72345)	9/19/1999 1:37:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572808

Thread, There has been speculation for a while that Athlon business will not pickup until FIC releases its motherboards (and chipsets). I did not believe it before but based on the avialability that is showing up on Pricewatch, I guess the speculation was on the mark. (I believe FIC is expecting to ship over half a million Athlon motherboards for Q4) I see this as good news and bad news. The good news is that AMD Q4 now appears to be in the bag. The bad news is that a lot of it depends on FIC. If FIC has problems, so will AMD. I would appreciate if people on the thread can keep the thread appraised of the status of FIC motherboards (especially if there are any glitches) Good luck, Chuck