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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (51923)3/8/1999 8:29:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572373
 
Cringe - Re: "She restated, with an assuring tone of voice, that AMD "will" have chipsets upon the K7's release."

Then BRACE yourself.

The K7 WILL ALSO BE DELAYED.

Paul



To: Cirruslvr who wrote (51923)3/8/1999 9:09:00 PM
From: grok  Respond to of 1572373
 
"I then asked if the bad yields also affected mobile chips, and she said the lower yields
affected higher MHz processors only."

This sounds like the K6 design is just not hitting the freq target as opposed to poor yield due to defects or other processing problems. Maybe the finger should be pointed at the designers rather than fab.