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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (55190)	4/12/1999 8:58:00 AM
From: A. A. LaFountain III	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1584556

Re: NDA I'm not sure what your question is in reference to, but assume that AMD never reveals material inside information to me as an analyst, NDA or no NDA. If my firm were doing banking work for AMD (or any company, for that matter) and it required me to be brought "over the Wall" (a reference to the "Chinese Wall" that is supposed to separate investment banking from research), then I would be precluded from writing on the company (or, I believe, in some cases, just precluded from discussing the relevant areas, although how that distinction is made is a topic that eludes me). If your reference is to the SMP logic chipset from Poseidon Technologies, that awareness came from outside AMD and was therefore part of the "information matrix" that investors are allowed (in fact, encouraged) to use to develop their investment stance. I hope this answers your question. - Tad LaFountain