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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (96744)	3/4/2000 9:39:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575761

Jozef, you are perfectly correct and Elmer is toadally wrong. I imagine that when the chipset shortage hit they ran some multiple starts in parallel at several fabs to produce a large bubble of chipsets to fill the demand, and then they rapered that down to the predicted need curve. Then when the CPUs had the yield problem they were caught short until the CPU bubble could work it's way down the pipeline. I think the Japanese had similar problems at the battle of Midway....both the Japanese carriers and Inte's share shared a similar fate. In essence the feedback loop is so long that there can be no fast response to an unanticipated problem. AMD forced Intel to truncate the testing of the chipsets with rambust to get them out the door. This is another hidden story that will be told later as employees cash options and tell their tales. Bill Bill