Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[Jerry R]

The bottom line is this: Bapco exposed a serious deficiency in the K7 microarchitecture, and AMD whined and cried to the world.

The rabid AMD fans grabbed hold of the consipracy theories the mothership spewed forth and propogated them to investment boards such as this, because there certainly can't be anything wrong with the awesome and perfect Athlon, right?

The P4 is a dog, because Jerry Sanders said so. He and Hector Ruiz expect all of the AMD fans to accept this. But given how much damage this "dog" has done to AMD, it's interesting to think what a "non-dog" design would have done.