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

To: Yousef who wrote (31701)	4/11/1998 4:08:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1571035

Yousef, I'm NOT arguing that AMD is actually producing the same kind of speed bin distribution as Intel, or that Intel's FET's are as aggressive for device drive current at low voltages as Intel's, or anything to do with process technology. I'm just pointing out that because Intel is a higher volume producer, they will be able to introduce high end parts to market before their lower volume competitors. This point seems fairly obvious to me. If you need to have X number of parts in inventory before you officially introduce the product, than a company which, by virtue of scale alone, produces five or six times as many parts as its competitor is going to introduce that part first, all other things being equal. Unfortunately for AMD, this creates the impression that Intel's process technology is more advanced relative to AMD's than it actually is. Please try to take this simple counting exercise into account before you fly of into the stratosphere of comparative process analysis. Kevin