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To: RDM who wrote (56656)	4/28/1999 12:12:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1570548

Posted 28/04/99 3:00pm by Mike Magee AMD confirms Raza to ramp up activities An AMD spokesperson today confirmed that at a board of directors meeting on the 29th of April, it will be proposed that Atiq Raza will become president and chief operating officer (COO) of the company. (See story: AMD's Sanders to take back seat) That effectively means that Jerry Sanders III will stay as chairman of the company

To: RDM who wrote (56656)	4/28/1999 12:14:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570548

Posted 28/04/99 12:04pm by Mike Magee Intel "disappointed" by AMD's K7 Impeccable sources at Intel have described AMD's floating point (FP) performance as disappointing. Last week, an engineer at AMD told us that a K7-500MHz scores an FPU Winmark of 2767, compared to a Winmark of 2562 for a Pentium III/500. (See story) That is if these figures are true. A senior figure working at Intel Israel who wishes to remain anonymous today said: "I really am disappointed with the K7 so far. AMD has made us a better company and I don't want them exterminated." He said that AMD had galvanised activities at Intel. But he also had some words of criticism for AMD. "They really should blab less and work on their process more. I am convinced that their problems aren't because they only have one fab, or we [Intel] have more money. No Intel fab has ever halted dead in its tracks the way AMD's Fab 25 did." " Sounds like they were talking to Elmer. <G>