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To: Yousef who wrote (6415)	5/31/1998 12:44:00 AM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Yousef <who would want an AMD Alpha chip that runs at 266mhz> You cretin, I was trying to set a sort of peace here by posting a raw argument without caustic remarks, but you seem to be too dumb for that. My original message supposed to include more. You still seem to not able to comprehend the relationship and tradeoffs between design complexity and transistor technology available at the moment of making design decision. Your " analysis" of silicon technology is apparently no better than your assessment of sources for Alpha fabrication as you just have demonstrated in your previous post: you forgot the major source - Samsung!!! What did you forget in your "consultations" about masks and silicon dopings? What a shame for a Ph.D.! Have a nice weekend.

To: Yousef who wrote (6415)	5/31/1998 3:03:00 AM
From: Kenith Lee	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6843

who would want an AMD Alpha chip that runs at 266mhz Yousef, If AMD were to produce the Alpha, it will be smaller and run a lot faster than those that are made by DEC and Samsung. AMD's process technologies is ahead of DEC and Samsung. Intel has to push back the Merced because the company has been relying on standard process technologies. Without Local Interconnect module, the die size is huge and speed is slow. AMD paid the due and is ahead of Intel in this key module. K7 samples will be out by this fall and will ship one year ahead of Intel.