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To: Lee Penick who wrote (38695)	11/3/1997
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 186894

Lee - Re: "But I don't understand why they want to continue the pain and compete against Intel in this low end market." AMD's corporation is now built on competing and succeeding in the Intel look-a-like business. If this fails, they will have to re-trench to a much smaller operation. Re: "Merced question: has a prototype chip been made in silicon yet, or is it not that far along?" Intel & HP have completed the architectural definition, logic design and essentially all of the circuit design. They are now in layout (actually "drawing" the transistors and interconnect) and I would expect that an April - May, 1998 target date is set for "tape-out". In parallel with this effort is the technology development program for the 0.18 micron process - which clearly needs to achieve some "milestones" by tape-out time. Paul