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To: Robert Douglas who wrote (78081)	4/8/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: Srini	Respond to of 186894

Robert: re: <<Here's a sincere question from a non-technical type.>> From a gynecologist's point of view, I agree with your assessment, but our resident techies may be able to elaborate. Srini.

To: Robert Douglas who wrote (78081)	4/8/1999 1:01:00 PM
From: Gary Ng	Respond to of 186894

Robert, Re: I'm not trying to bash AMD but why should this time be different? 1. They have already gaining the needed market share 2. They have learned the lesson about production problem and will not repeat the same mistake again. 3. K7 is headed by the mighty Alpha architect 4. K7 will soon be built on the mighty copper process which is much more advance than what Intel is using. Gary

To: Robert Douglas who wrote (78081)	4/8/1999 2:24:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

<Question: How does a design flaw influence production? If AMD's designs were bad with the K6, why should we believe the K7 is any better?> The "design flaw" wouldn't be a design flaw if AMD didn't feel the need to push the speed of the K6-2 to be competitive with Intel's chips. But the K6-2 wasn't intended to be run at very high speeds in the first place, while Intel's current products are. So as AMD tries to achieve performance parity with Intel, they keep running into one problem after another. <Question: Has AMD ever NOT had production problems? Why would production with the K7 be any different?> Well, the K7 is designed from the start to be run at very high speds, much like Intel's current products. This directly addresses the speed weakness of the K6-2 (and the K6-III). Production problems, i.e. the problems that aren't in the design, but in the fabrication process, are a different story. You echo the opinion of perhaps thousands of investors who have looked into AMD but aren't buying. Tenchusatsu