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To: Ali Chen who wrote (25959)	11/14/1997 10:18:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583432

Ali; In effect a good time manager, but not a chip architect. Bill

To: Ali Chen who wrote (25959)	11/14/1997 10:33:00 PM
From: StockMan	Respond to of 1583432

Ali babble, Re -- According to last Microprocessor Forum, the K7 is going to be a Slot-1-like with Digital EV6 bus interface. Therefore, this work was long time in progress and seems to be independent from K6-V.Dham project, and I do not see any reason to worry here. The K7? First AMD has to get their yields up. At the current yield, they will be loosing money on every K6 they sell, even if they mark up the price 25% above Intel's price. Also from a "lehman report" which so many of you trust, AMD will have the same yield in Q1 98. Maybe Greg Nus, will buy some of their junk bonds, so that they can raise money for the k7 and counter the losses from k6. But then he should be prepared to lose it all too. Stockman

To: Ali Chen who wrote (25959)	11/15/1997 8:45:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1583432

Ali and Bill, read the post that Fuchi sent to me where, basically, V says his "work was done" at AMD. If Jerry the Ogre forced him out, why should he protect him. Severance clauses which prevent someone from saying negative comments have been universally ruled unenforceable. He was a CPU architect, AMD doesn't need that right now. He would probably be working on a RISC alternative to the K7 if he were still there, and thats not exactly a high priority project right now. Petz

To: Ali Chen who wrote (25959)	11/18/1997 4:40:00 PM
From: Profits	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583432

Ali, According to my sources, Vin Dham had nothing to do with the design or architecture of the K6. He was more on the business side of things. Atiq Raza, Chief Technical Officer, was the primary visionairy on the K6. I heard that AMD had a re-org and Vinod Dham didn't get the job he wanted so he decided to sell his stock and take the money and run. The K6 design is complete and K7 is underway. The success of the K6 program had little to do with Vin Dham. Profits