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To: Saturn V who wrote (86171)	1/9/2000 5:29:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1584578

Saturn V, That sounds reasonable. That notch tech had to have a downside. Takes finer control, I infer from what you say so they took greater care in the rampinn and this throttled production. Bill

To: Saturn V who wrote (86171)	1/9/2000 9:19:00 PM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1584578

<AMD manufacturing is not as conservative as Intel. With the backs to the wall, they have taken major gambles which did not execute smoothly and caused the financial disasters of 98 and H1 99. However in H2 99 , the gambles have paid off. > 1998/1999: AMD had its back to the wall with K6-core since it was competing with a superior PPro core. So, it had little choice but be "not as conservative as Intel". 1999/2000: Intel has its back to the wall with PPro core since it is competing with a superior core. Now it is Intel's turn to push the fab and take the gambles and be "not as conservative as AMD".