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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (82625)	12/10/1999 4:18:00 PM
From: kash johal	Respond to of 1571929

Pravin, Re:"$250M fund" They might do better to actually deliver a 2 way and 4 way Athlon MB for server markets. And couple that with Athlons with larger off-chip cache. These were due in Q4 as I recall, and they have suddenly vanished from the roadmap. We now hear of AMD manufacturing Mustangs and thunderbolts etc in a few months with HUGE on -die cache. It is likely they will have manufacturing problems - clearly large full speed caches are non-trivial. I wish they would take smaller steps that are deliverable even if it is a single CPU with larger on chip cache. This was the ATIQ RAZA approach - small, measured steps etc. The strategy and roadmap seems to have changed to shipping the biggest/fastest to beat Intel again. Frankly if they can really deliver 900-1Ghz parts in volume in the near term with offchip cache this is what they should do and focus on. But I sense this not the direction they are going in. Just my $0.02. regards, Kash