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Subject: Re: AMD new processors

Author: Aaron Gordon

Date: 22:43:52 09/29/02

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On September 30, 2002 at 00:21:12, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>On September 30, 2002 at 00:05:40, Slater Wold wrote:
>
>>I got the annoucement in August that the 2600s would be coming out soon.  It is
>>now September and they are barely rolling out.  (As in, several vendors who are
>>selling them don't actually have them yet.)  AMD is horrible about this.
>>Announce a chip, and 3 months later it hits the streets.
>
>Well, it's a paper launch, and most every company does it at some point or
>another.  Does AMD do it more than most?  I can't answer, because I don't keep
>track of those things.

Intel does most of the paper launches. I the 2600+ is the only time I've seen
AMD try that.



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