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

To: Cirruslvr who wrote (82200)	12/7/1999 12:16:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578158

Cirruslvr, <"The bad news: the K6-2+ and K6-III+ continue to have problems to yield at higher speeds (533 MHz+). Oh well, you can't have it all." I hope this doesn't hold AMD back too much in the first half of next year. > There were rumors about K6 not scaling well on 0.18 from May if my memory serves me right. I thought this product line would go away at the end of this year or no later than first half of 2000. I continue to be surprised by AMD's persistance on the K6 family. IMHO, AMD management seems to have been stuck on K6s for tenuous reasons. I think they would do much better by dumping that product line and focusing on Athlon and derivatives. Yes, they will have to walk away from the laptop and low-end desktop scene for a couple of quarters but I don't necessarily see this as a big deal. Chuck