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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37611)	9/29/1998 11:25:00 AM
From: Elmer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572630

Re: "How did AMD let this FLAW get into production and the hands of customers." It's pretty easy to figure out. Intel announced a 450mhz PII. AMD had no choice but to rush untested K6's to market at a higher speed. Even with this desperated move the K6 is now a full 100mhz behind Intel's top speed product. What would it look like if AMD was still stuck at 333mhz? According to my sources they had two choices: 1). Admit their process was so inferior that they were lucky to be shipping 333s in limited volume. 2). Ship unreliable 350s and think up an excuse later when they started getting complaints. If you were Jerry which one would you chose? EP