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To: Elmer who wrote (159761)	2/22/2002 2:15:59 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Elmer - Re: "Yes there is that minor little problem of turning a set of slides into a manufacturable product. Signal integrity is becoming a major challenge as these extremely highspeed connections become reality. Easy to flip through those slides. Hard to make it work." What is more shocking is that MAD felt compelled to pre-announce a non-existing chip set program for their Hamster. I suspect that MAD has been told by prospective customers (IBM, HP, Compaq, NEC, etc.) that their Hamster is a CPU solution with NO SYSTEM-LEVEL components - and therefore would be of no use to Enterprise server manufacturers. Thus, MAD whipped together a few people to define a few chips that give the impression that AMD is working on the "big picture" - systems level support - for their Hamster. As it stands now, MAD will be offering up a desktop-only cpu with unusable 64 bit features - and their dream of competing with Intel's extensive system-level components is now turning in to a nightmare. Paul

To: Elmer who wrote (159761)	2/22/2002 3:13:07 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Yes there is that minor little problem of turning a set of slides into a manufacturable product. Signal integrity is becoming a major challenge as these extremely highspeed connections become reality. Easy to flip through those slides. Hard to make it work. Ah those slides...no field failures or returns, no blue screens, no hangs, no glitches or reflections, no performance problems, no problem reports,...Amazing how many people on these Internet threads take as gospel everything companies put on a Power Point slide or a Microsoft Project milestone chart. Tony