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

To: MikeyB who wrote (34923)	7/21/1998 5:42:00 PM
From: Michael DaKota	Respond to of 1572778

Amd has good reason canceling the IBM-deal: - Nathan Brookwood, microprocessor analyst at Dataquest, said the IBM agreement was more of a short-term tactical move, while the Motorola deal is a more strategic, long-term approach. "I think this means that AMD is ahead of where they expected to be in terms of their transition to 0.25-micron devices and their yields," he said. "Since it now appears that IBM was just part of their backup strategy, itb looks like AMD is pretty confident that they are out of the woods." -

To: MikeyB who wrote (34923)	7/21/1998 5:47:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572778

While IBM has delivered K6 samples, none of the chips will ever hit the commercial market. Thanks for the link. Maybe Paul and Yousef owe me an apology? Scumbria