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To: Paul Engel who wrote (34701)	7/17/1998 10:55:00 PM
From: Robert Walter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572643

Paul, re;How long do you think it will take Motorola to design and manufacture these chips? 6 months, 9 months -- a year? I was not trying to imply that this would be a good situation for AMD either. Because actually its not a good situation for AMD because if MOT does produce embedded k6's they will be competing with AMD for customers as well. Embedded designs have a longer life than the current cpu's. Just look at AMD's 486 Elan processor its still selling well for embedded application. Since MOT has used the same process technology (IBM's 5 metal layer c4 bump technology) for its Power Pc chips it has a high degree of familiarity with that process. I would guess, assuming AMD provides at least enough of a initial design, that they could be producing chips in about 6 months. This is of course all speculation since only Mondays news conference will tell us it the K6 is involved. Robert