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To: Elmer who wrote (132457)	4/16/2001 1:19:24 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Re: "What's really pathetic is that not only is AMD incapable of getting anything SMP to work at all, " AMD had it working 6 months ago. They don't need to release it until Intel comes up with an SMP solution of their own. All the genius analysts like Nathan Brookwood and Dean McCarron say so ! In the meantime, AMD is STOCKPILING hundreds of thousands of these chip sets to take the market by storm.....some day ! Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (132457)	4/16/2001 1:39:12 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, I'm sure you realize that even Intel took quite a while before they were even capable of 2-way and 4-way SMP. And Intel's record in SMP isn't spotless, either. If you remember back when the 4-way Xeon/450NX platform was released, there was a nasty bug which plagued it for six months following. (I forgot the details, though. Go figure.) So the delays we're seeing from AMD is pretty much par for the course. You can expect the schedule for their Hammer processors, especially those for 4-way and 8-way SMP, to slip. I say this not as an insult to AMD or their engineers, but as a mere statement of the way things are with SMP. Tenchusatsu