Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 01:11:57 09/30/02
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On September 30, 2002 at 01:43:52, Aaron Gordon wrote: >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. I remember a lot of other launches. The K7 was announced 2.5 years before it was on the market. specs were posted 1.5 years before it was on the market and then it still wasn't there. Now you can cry about intel delaying the K7 by some 'blackmail' (i do not know how to call it otherwise as my english is not too well; they didn't want to deliver their intel chipsets to mainboard manufacturers who wanted to make K7 motherboards and 90+% of their sales were intel boards at that moment, so they actually needed them bigtime). You can cry about other things too, but both manufacturers are already drumming years ahead about new things. My own drumming about a diep windows version is completely amateuristic compared to their drumming up to 7 years ahead.
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