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

To: A. A. LaFountain III who wrote (57201)	5/6/1999 11:17:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1572942

Tad, I wonder if CYRX (without the FAB) would be a good addition to AMD. They get a socket-370 chip that can be used at the lowend with solid FP and will not have to be concerned about potential support issues with socket-7 (now that they are the only significant socket-7 player in the industry). Cyrix design team should be able to port their designs to AMDs 180 nm fairly quickly and make the products competitive with Celeron/PII/PIII. AMD guys can giveup on any work on K6-2 and K6-3 and do something more useful. (K6-2/K6-3 FP could to be a continuing issue in the market, even at low-end) And given the current industry situation they should be able to get Cyrix people, designs, and certain Intel cross-licenses for about ~200M. Any thoughts? Care to estimate the +ves and -ves of such a deal and guess on the probability of this event? Chuck