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To: Mahmoud Mohammed who wrote (259617)	4/8/2009 7:36:27 PM
From: Elmer Phud	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"I said the launch was rough ... they were fixed in fairly short order ..." "Both problems were solved by the D stepping." I don't suppose he sees a problem with these two statements... What about all the A-n, B-n, C-n etc etc steppings? If the customers were getting samples of multiple broken steppings I wouldn't expect them to be in any great hurry to ramp.

To: Mahmoud Mohammed who wrote (259617)	4/8/2009 9:05:43 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Yawn ... This could easily have influenced OEMs as to AMD's reliability as a supplier ... And we haven't even gotten to Bark-y-lounger. <ggg>" Intel has had their share of botched launches. Stop trying to pretend that has only happened to AMD.

To: Mahmoud Mohammed who wrote (259617)	4/9/2009 6:47:53 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Re: This could easily have influenced OEMs as to AMD's reliability as a supplier ... Yeah, watching Intel's willingness to use extortion to block AMD's access to markets was a pretty clear indication that there were risks associated with using it as a supplier. Besides its use of pricing to punish companies that bought from AMD, Intel would withhold technical specification information and technical support from companies that bought from AMD, meaning that they couldn't even count on open market or grey market purchases.