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To: dale_laroy who wrote (41241)	5/26/2001 12:25:04 PM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Dale: The rumor was that the K8 design effort was beginning to look like the K5 design effort and therefore the decision was made to cancel this core and replace it with a core based on the K7 design, using many of the members of the K7 design team. Atiq Raza and a large number of the original NexGen design team left when the original K8 design, which the primarily NexGen team was working on, was cancelled. This mass exodus started in July 1999. Well, with 19/20 hindsight, that was probably good. The NexGen folks were very good, but tended to do high-IPC solutions (with correspondingly low frequency). Additionally, AMD had extremely limited resources at the time and transferring some of them to getting the K7 out the door was probably a good idea. Having the next-generation chip (new K8) based on K7 is also something that I take confidence in. The K7 is an extremely solid design and should be a good stepping stone to greater things. The marketing heaven of 64-bit computing probably won't hurt either ;-) -fyo