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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: StockMan who wrote (26244)	11/29/1997 6:54:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572616

Re: "Why did Jerry say that AMD would be 2 speed grades behind Intel?" It might be interesting for you to look at the context of this statement. The important question is, is AMD's process catching up to Intel's or falling further behind. Patient Engineer seems to think its catching up. Certainly the fact the AMD seems to have addressed its immediate .35u yield problems looks encouraging. The other thing is the thermal brick. If I'm right, the superior heat dissipation of the brick allows Intel to effectively clock their CPU's higher than AMD can with the socket 7 infrastructure. This is a factor in the determination of clock speed completely exogenous to manufacturing process. Maybe if we somehow put a 233mhz K6 into the thermal brick, it would run within spec at 266 mhz. Just something to think about. Kevin