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To: Elmer who wrote (115156)	10/31/2000 7:17:14 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

RE: "a VP named Avtar Siani(sp?)." Hi Elmer, Avtar is extremely bright in engineering. He was a design manager for the Pentium and then he headed up the Pentium II, MMX engineering - he was in charge of Intel's second most important product. He was also the original leader of Merced and he evidently left it in excellent shape. (Unfortunately, the fella who lead Merced in its middle phase is no longer with Intel.) I never heard of Avtar doing anything technically wrong - the Valley is a small world - I have a lot of contacts that know him. Avtar appears to be a very smart engineer that is good at the front-end of engineering products. He also seems to be the type of person who is a good listener. Not a bull-dog personality type. Avtar left the chipset group about 2.5 years ago (to build/head up Intel India), back when Rambus was the best thing that happened to Intel. However, I would suspect that he's the type that would have changed tacks quickly if Rambus was dragging their heels and gating Intel's performance. An alternative solution only takes 10 months according to Paul's post. There should have been a backup plan. Since Avtar never failed at anything, maybe he is the person responsible for not having a backup plan. Although, I would wonder why the person who took over didn't create one. Regards, Amy J