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

To: stribe30 who wrote (127157)	11/1/2000 7:50:21 PM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570942

Re: "Hmmm.. as I recall from being a lurker on here last August after the Athlon was announced.. werent you also on here bugging everyone about the Athlon getting announced and then apparently not having any MB support for a couple of months? That turned out ok for AMD - what makes you think this is any different?" I could have been raising that point, don't remember, but more importantly your second point; This is a big deal, imo. AMD needs highend sales to boost ASPs. They need a foot in the door in the business/server market and that's why they need SMP systems. 2 years from Athlon introduction to SMP systems is a very long time to do the very simplest thing your competition in the SMP market has been doing for years. And that's just 2-way. The competition is shipping 2-way, 4/8/16/32/64-way systems and AMD is still stuck at the starting gate. I think they made a very bad decision when they chose the EV6 bus architecture and now they're stuck with a design nightmare. The competition is years ahead with a well established, scalable high performance architecture, they're cleaning up in the market place and AMD is only hoping they can get a 2-way out by next summer. The gap is only getting wider. EP