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To: Steve Porter who wrote (39531)	10/17/1998 3:57:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578925

<K7 samples for OEMs are ready AFAIK and should be shipped next month.. but this is many-hand information.. anyone with anything better?> That's pretty good in terms of K7 execution so far. However, AMD said that the K7 should be released by the 1H 1999, i.e. June. Does this assume that OEM's won't find any show-stopping bugs in the K7/Slot A platform? If so, what happens if AMD holds up the K7 release due to bugs similar to the ones which affected the 4-way Xeon release? My personal feeling is that if AMD doesn't run into any such bugs, that would be a remarkable (lucky?) accomplishment in itself. It would finally break AMD out of the low-end mold and prove that they can push a totally new x86 platform (Slot A) without any hiccups. Tenchusatsu