Bottom at last?

Dennis Robert Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Wed Aug 21 17:41:10 PDT 2002


Hmm. Things have finally stopped getting worse in the chip biz, so we may be close to a turnaround. Open source seems to be taking off fast in the new metropoles:

http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20020821S0033

In related news, the usually reliable Dr. Tom has this to say about how Eastern Europe saved AMD's bacon:

"However, at the last minute, AMD developers in Dresden (called "Fab 30") made a breakthrough: suddenly, introducing the Thoroughbred "B" would make it possible to achieve significantly higher clock speeds, and so now an early launch of the Barton is no longer necessary. Moreover, this new development presents completely new possibilities, so the Athlon XP should continue to be available on the market for a while. It's all thanks to the former Robotron engineers." (http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/02q3/020821/athlonxp-01.html)

-- Dennis



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