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To: JBoyd who wrote (37237)	9/20/1998 11:32:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1580249

JBoyd, <Sharptooth production? ... so that a non-engineer would understand.> It is apparent from the previous message that this is not an engineering problem. It may be rather called as "risk associated with too rapid product transition". No engineering at all, I think.

To: JBoyd who wrote (37237)	9/21/1998 1:12:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1580249

JBoyd, re:I am getting really confused about what is going on with Sharptooth. If they are holding off on manufacturing because they are selling everything they can make at a decent ASP, why not get IBM or Motorola to manufacture K6-2 while they start Sharptooth production? Here's a direct quote from Tom Kurlak (Merrill Lynch): Fundamental Highlights: o K-6-2 with 3-D selling well now, no longer order limited. o Added demand from Hewlett-Packard helping. This kind of implies that a short time ago, production WAS higher than orders. Hewlett Packard probably eliminated that problem. It wouldn't be that easy to transfer production to IBM or MOT. The first production wafers wouldn't come out for 8-12 weeks (actual number is top secret AMD info, I'm sure), and as AMD's own wafers finished production, you wouldn't know for sure what kind of speed mix and yields IBM or MOT was getting. There was a cryptic announcement about a "new type of K6" for notebooks. Perhaps AMD decided to ramp the K6-3 initially as notebook chips, which would guarantee high prices for the limited initial production. Even if the K6-3 is two full speed grades ahead of the Pentium II, AMD would not experience instant demand for 25M CPU's because 1. Some market segments still want Intel. This takes time to change. The consumer market always leads, the big corporations are last to change. 2. AMD couldn't make more than 6M CPU's in a quarter anyway until Dresden comes on line. 3. VIA and ALI would probably not be able to make that many chipsets and the motherboard makers couldn't make that many Super7 motherboards. Petz