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

To: Paul Engel who wrote (53258)	3/23/1999 3:22:00 AM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570837

From CNN FN, ************************ Baker said AMD's financial difficulties track in part to its strategic approach and may be only temporary. "What they are doing in the consumer retail space is, basically, spending money in advance of building a market presence in some of the more profitable market segments, like the enterprise or server markets," he said. ************************ cnnfn.com

To: Paul Engel who wrote (53258)	3/23/1999 8:20:00 AM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570837

Re: "an 8MB Intel i740 Video adapter" Is Intel getting out of the graphics business after this products bombed so badly? Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (53258)	3/23/1999 10:52:00 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570837

Paul, IF they are using the 5169...and who says they are...but... The interesting thing about the slow boot problem is that when AMD first demoed the SS7 100 MHZ bus K6 it was using the MICROSTAR 5169 "muthaboard". So Gateway probably asked AMD which motherboard to use and they said the Microstar. This problem doesn't surprise me, especially in light of the Taiwan chipsets/motherboards. It takes them too long to get them right and the rarely run as fast as Intels chipsets. AMD better have their own chipset and motherboard for the K7. I said this 6 months ago. If AMD tells Gateway this is a Microstar problem and does try and fix it then they are just plain "really dumb". Jim