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To: hmaly who wrote (113261)	5/29/2000 9:32:00 PM
From: chic_hearne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573531

Re: How strong was the rumor, and have you heard anything since? Did you hear rumor first or scond hand? Harry, Let's try 20th hand. I wouldn't make much of it. Do you have any internal knowledge that their claims are correct? The reason I ask is that Kevin and Kash and others have dismissed the claims in the german article I'm low on the totem pole, they don't tell me sht. There are chip design teams at my site, so I do get to talk to engineers sometimes. My experience with engineers is they are a strange breed. They have very in depth knowledge of a very specific task, but are oblivious to what's going on around them. A good example is a friend of mine works on the S80 handling all sorts of different tasks. Up until about 3 weeks ago she didn't even know she worked on the S80 until I pointed it to her. She just knows SKU numbers of parts. I've had some in depth conversations about DRDRAM, Athlon, and the paper Hans wrote. So far I just leave more confused about my findings. Nothing worth posting here. rumors, what is your take? True or false?* I think AMD might be a subject of talk at IBM because they are jumping on the copper bandwagon also. We've gambled billions on copper so it would only make sense to support AMD's efforts. Only a short time ago people were calling it crazy to spend billions on copper. As far as the rumor- I have no comment, let's wait until the 5th. With as big a company as IBM is, at any given time, there's a good 5-10 rumors going around. I'm completely sold on copper. It's good for both AMD and IBM. chic