Re: Apple, Jobs, and the irony of it

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Sheldon Simms <sheldonsimms@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> and they will have a 64-bit Athlon out in September, 2003.
>
>Yes. The Athlon 64 and Opteron were originally scheduled to launch
>much more closely together. I suspect the Athlon 64 was delayed because
>the Opteron has some fabrication problems that AMD wanted to fix before
>they did a mass-market launch. I expect the Athlon 64 will be a new
>revision of the x86-64 architecture.

AMD claims that they are waiting for the release of
Microsoft's 64-bit Windows XP but it would not
surprise me if what you say is closer to the truth.

It is better for a company to fix such issues rather
than rushing a product to market.  Intel did this
with the 1.1Ghz PIII if I recall (when they panicked
after the release of the 1Ghz Athlon) and ended
up recalling the chip.  Only an entrenched leader
like Intel can make a mistake like that and survive.
Apple certainly could not revive the Apple III after
similar problems.