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

To: niceguy767 who wrote (85923)	1/7/2000 7:37:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572965

Niceguy, Perhaps some management was behind it but the guy I give the most credit to is named Dirk Meyer. It wasn't too hard to realize MHz sells and yields had to be good but it took a team to design a chip that could take some of the high ground from Intel. 1. it had to scale like crazy...MHz sells 2. it had to yield well, self exclaimatory. K6's could only yield 60+% on a good day. 3. it had to have a powerful FPU, had to apease the graphics and gamer crowd. Otherwise it would get benchmarked to death. The K6s trailed the P6 core in all 3 categories. Intel was staying rich and AMD couldn't get rich. So if Dirk lead the Athlon design team then he's gets most of the credit from me. Jim