Re: A.M.D. to Split Into Two Operations

Robert Myers wrote:
> On Oct 12, 3:00 pm, Del Cecchi <delcecchinospamoftheno...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>Fantasy.  IBM helped AMD with fab projects and SOI, for which IBM
>>received considerable money.
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> Forty-five million dollars.  Chicken feed for the biggest coup in the
> the microprocessor revolution.  Without it, AMD was dead in its tracks
> and Power was a dead duck right along with it.

The numbers I heard were way more than 45 million, and didn't have 
anything to do with 64 bit architecture and chip design stuff that I 
think you are referring to.

del
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