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To: Elmer who wrote (81252)	6/1/2002 7:47:31 AM
From: bacchus_ii	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Was it wishful thinking when Jerry told shareholders that there was no Intel microcode in the AMD version of the 486, only to be found a liar in a court of law and AMD ended up paying Intel millions of $$$? IIRC, there was no Intel microcode in the AMD's 486. It was in the in-circuit-emulator and that was a product used to debug software or hardware. Was it wishful thinking when Jerry told shareholders that the yield problems had been fixed on the K6, only to admit months later that they never were and now many lawsuits are still pending as a result? Notwithstanding the disclaimer that prevail in a CC, it's never been proved that when Jerry told that the problem was fixed, he really was thinking it was. It take many week to run a production batch. Was it wishful thinking when Jerry told shareholders that AMD's .18u yields were "World Class" and their .13u yields were even better, only to prove unable to ship material many months later? Maybe it's true that yields is good and that's the leaking current characterizing the bulk .13u process that cause the deception or any other reason. We don't know. Gottfried