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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (85687)	7/24/2002 12:32:25 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

wbmw, AMD already launches products in low volume. I don't think I agree. If you said late, I would agree, but once released, the availability has generally been good. Do you have something specific in mind? As far as reducing risk by a lower volume release, notebook release serves that purpose well, since fewer notebook chips are sold as opposed to desktop. Joe

To: wanna_bmw who wrote (85687)	7/24/2002 1:29:06 PM
From: Gopher Broke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

AMD already launches products in low volume. It's what you call a "paper launch", and they have become quite good at it. I suppose it's their way of "reducing risk". Itanium seems like a good example of this kind of "risk reduction" limited release. I don't accept your argument that you can't debug hardware problems on shipping product. It is just more effort. You could - take the symptoms/apps and try and repro the problem in the lab - get the customer to ship the problem machine to you - take your equipment on-site. After all, Intel has had their fair share of having to fix bugs on shipping product, haven't they?