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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Petz who wrote (25327)10/27/1997 3:13:00 AM
From: nihil   of 1576246
 
RE: Intel has very little R&D

Petz,

Don't think percentages of sales matter very much here. The important thing is person-hours of R&D personnel, and in this Intel swamps AMD. Of course, Intel has a much broader product line, and because of its splendid cash position is likely to spend too much, rather than too little, and employ too many cooks rather than too few. Doubtless much attention is directed to Merced, which is server oriented rather than PC focused. Intel also may spend too much on projects for which the immediate payoff is remote, like EUV (in which AMD has a tiny share as well), as well as excessive grants to Sematech which bring benefits to the entire membership.

The striking thing is how tiny teams like Centaur can come up with
significant products on minimal expenditure. In R&D there is no substitute for brains. Rich is also good, but is not the answer to everything -- as Microsoft has shown again and again.
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