albert, Re: "few times barrett announced of share gains as a justification for his strategy and each time it proved to be either draw, share loss or very insignificant gain. Instead of treating his announcement with some skepticism they are assumed to be true without question by most here. I question Jerry's actions all the time so how come barrett is above that."
I'm sorry, but you're going to have to back that up. Last time someone here accused Intel of out-right lying about market share gains, they came up with a comment from Paul Otellini about how Intel "held" market share after the fourth quarter of 2000, when they obviously did not. Paul clearly made the claim in error, but in all fairness, he made the claim a week or so before AMD announced their quarter, so it seemed that he didn't have the right data at the time.
As for Craig Barrett, I never remember him making any kinds of claims regarding gains in market share, especially under the conditions that you explain. If Barrett speaks at all, it's usually conservative and non-committal. I don't think Barrett has uttered a prediction yet that hasn't come true. Of course, that's mostly because he doesn't usually utter predictions, and when he does, it's usually like, "I believe we are well positioned to take advantage of a recovering economy," and predictions like that have a hard time being proved incorrect.
As for Jerry Sanders, I rarely see you question any of his wild claims. Maybe you can show me a link proving that as well.
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