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To: Ali Chen who wrote (25710)	11/9/1997 10:24:00 AM
From: Yousef	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1579675

Ali, Re: "Yousef's continued position that Intel's process technology has a lot more capability than AMD's." Please help me to understand ... why do you believe that AMD has superior process technology ?? Do you also believe that AMD has superior manufacturing capability as well ?? Here is a post from Petz to give you a description of AMD's process ... I'm sure you will want to use this as a starting point. "Each circuit layer contains P-doped Silicon, N-doped Silicon, Aluminum, not sure what the dielectric is. Now go back to sleep. I believe one of the five layers is basically just "wiring", i.e., aluminum only." Make It So, Yousef

To: Ali Chen who wrote (25710)	11/9/1997 11:43:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1579675

Ali- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has disclosed on its Web site (www.amd.com/K6/k6docs/revgd.html) a number of bugs in its K6 processor that could cause unpredictable system behavior or math errors under rare conditions. Several of the bugs have no immediate software fixes available and will be corrected in future manufacturing revisions. In one case involving the floating-point unit, the company has identified six source and destination operand patterns that erroneously result in a zero when performing multiply operations. How about demanding a recall for this bug infested chip? EP