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To: Yousef who wrote (26671)	12/12/1997 12:27:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1585071

Yousef, Thanks. I guess one of my questions could be rephrased as...does the design of the K6 have anything to do with the yield problems vs the design of the Pentium? If so AMD may never be able to get the same yields as Intel. Of course, as little as I know about yields this could be a dumb question. If IBM is making K6's this would explain the seemingly good supply of them in retail boxes. IBM would be at least supplying themselves and ACER. The Aptiva boxes do say IBM K6. If true, IBM with better yields has literally stolen the K6. It also might explain why IBM is using K6's instead of 6x86s in it's new Aptivas. The K6 is simply cheaper to make. AMD is clearly going for market share and hoping for some profitability way down the road. A noble effort but not too good for the stockholders in the forseeable future. Jim