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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Cirruslvr who wrote (122927)8/23/2000 2:59:11 AM
From: kapkan4u   of 1581583
 
Albert Yu: "When we started this particular effort, we think about how we can really power the net of the future. I think when we started this project in 95-96 time frame - in fact that's the beginning of the internet - and we saw very clearly the net would become much more visual, much more including graphics, video, and security kind of capabilities, and so as a result of that we specifically architectured this marchicture (sp?) overlooking for those kind of of applications like streaming video and what Craig talked about, peer to peer..."

This is a total fabrication of course. Any Intel insider can tell you that all these years Andy Grove was looking for a "killer application". He came-up with ProShare, a ridiculous video-conferencing application, that it took Intel over $1B to develop and then kill. Suffice to say that he missed the Internet blossoming right under his nose.

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