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To: Profits who wrote (28594)	2/20/1998 9:32:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572327

Big Losses, Re -- And, by the way, the yields on Fab 25's K6 (0.25u) are up 5-fold since the new management has been put in place. Where is that IBM 266 aptiva system they promised. And why is cybermax saying that April/May is when they will have notebooks. Stockman P.S 5-fold is good, but if it were 1% before and is now 5% it really doesn't matter.

To: Profits who wrote (28594)	2/21/1998 1:05:00 AM
From: Time Traveler	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572327

Profits, In my very humble opinion, Intel is counting on the 100-MHz bus or beyond to boost the performance of Covington (P-II without L2 cache). There are some clienteles just would not care what type of engines that comes with a purchased new vehicle. Thus, you have to hand it to Intel for opening up such a market while keeping on track to migrate x86 CPUs to the ever-and-better Slot I. As we have touched this subject of die size several weeks ago, die size is not everything. Have you not observed K6, with smaller die size than P-II, have lower yield? As far as your claim of 5-fold increase in 0.25um yield, do you really have inside information to Fab 25? And as you have already known that your past claims of high K6 yield really did not solidify! Thus, what makes you think the April harvest of wafers would be satisfactory? You need to elaborate on your latest claims more into details, please! John. Ps. Still driving that German sports car?

To: Profits who wrote (28594)	2/21/1998 2:17:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572327

<The Covington is a pile of dung. When you remove L2 cache from the Pentium II processor it's performance drops below Pentium Classic performance. > Profits, How about providing a link to support your claim? Surely (Sherlie?) you wouldn't make a claim you couldn't back up. <And, by the way, the yields on Fab 25's K6 (0.25u) are up 5-fold since the new management has been put in place. AMD wafer outs in the April timeframe will show the improved yields.> Sure they will. Wish in one hand and piss in the other and see which one gets full first. EP

To: Profits who wrote (28594)	2/22/1998 7:04:00 PM
From: Xpiderman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572327

Profits, you wrote" ... AMD's K6-266 die size will still be smaller than Covington. And, by the way, the yields on Fab 25's K6 (0.25u) are up 5-fold since the new management has been put in place. AMD wafer outs in the April timeframe will show the improved yields. Profits " I hope it's true, can you provide any URL to support this news? Did/Do you buy AMD at the current level? By the way, Profits, you need watch your language, remember how Alber was kicking out od SI? Xy