To: milo_morai who wrote (99733 ) 3/24/2000 2:56:00 PM From: tejek Read Replies (2) | Respond to
I don't know what to think of AMD anymore these days. They are starting to remind me of how Intel was a few years ago. And now Intel is reminding me of how AMD was (baffling, truly baffling). Last month my contact at AMD told me Dresden's got working Athlon silicon running with on die L2 cache running at 1.1 GHz, and it's .18u, and the yields are in the 60% range. Now what do I think about that? Well it seems hard to believe.. What does everyone think about this kind of yield? Does sound unbelievable. Charles, you seem to have a source at Dresden. What do you think? You guys probably aren't going to believe this, and I still can't figure out exactly how they are doing it, but the goddamn Register is actually the best (if I can use that term while referring to them) source for info on the IT industry. I have my suspicions on how they are doing it, but I saw first hand at Cupertino a traveling group of Brits who constantly came and went, and I know for a fact that there were a bunch of engineers at Cupertino who were in regular contact with email pen pals in England. I don't know how many times I've flipped onto the Register and read something and thought to myself "How in hell did they find that out??" They have some amazing sources, and what's amazing about their sources is, they are remaining uncaught! Stuff is slipping out of these companies and getting put right into the pages of the Register. Sometimes I read stuff in there and it's almost verbatim of a meeting I was at! The bastards are good, I'll give them that. He is right about the Register. They manage to scoop everyone and they are usually very right!! Of course England has a long history of scooping rags. Now why does that sound dirty?!! ;~))
