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

To: Elmer who wrote (101812)	4/3/2000 11:15:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Respond to of 1573547

Elmer, Just what would you consider to be a "verifiable" date code. Crazyoldman has offered to post pictures but I get the impression that they would not be enough for you. Given that you admit that a date code error by AMD is unlikely then I think that your argument is flawed in that you seem to totally discount the fact that Crazyoldman claims to have processors with date codes dating back to WW9. I have to give Crazyoldman the benefit of the doubt. The codes are not hard to read and he has offered to post pictures. You said that: "A possible explanation is that your source was just a little eager and a bug was found at the last minute that delayed the launch." I find this to be a fatally flawed position because if the processors were delayed due to bugs then they would never have been released but if Crazyoldman is right then they were. Putting the date code issue aside completely, I can't say that your position is flawed per se, but I disagree with you about the stockpiling issue. I think the launch was gated by infrastructure namely motherboards, and by partner support. AMD was not yet sure that they could supply in volume, they were still smarting from K6 production issues and they did not yet know if yields and binsplits would be as good as they were eventually proven to be. In this situation I think that it would be logical to stockpile higher speed chips rather than downbin them. And I believe that it is possible that that is just what they did. I realize that this is just a matter of speculation and opinion so to that point I cannot say that you argument is flawed but that is only in the absence of date codes. Regards, Epinephrine