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CNBC 4/13/00 - 9:20:22 AM ..... servers, do you know what is the main driver of your chip business? >> Sure we do. Right now, if our flash memory business it is the cell phone business and the internet infrastructure. The internet infrastructure with people like cisco, alcatel, nortel, these businesses are growing very rapidly, they buy amd's flash mem reef, tremendous customers. Mark: What about the athlon >> Going into small business, leading business, leading in the consumer space and going forward, making progress into the corporate space, including people like in japan, fujitsu and nec. In the united states, i think we'll make great progress there, should have good announcements by mid year. Mark: The reason i ask this, i am apuzzled, not questions the numbers, microsoft is experiencing problems because of a slowdown in computer sales and you quite obviously are almost down a different planet here. >> It turns turns out the only slow down in the so-called corporate or enterprise sector in january and february. March was even better there. So the realities are with the y2k problem behind us, the corporate market is coming back to life, we've got the windows 2000, a product cycle upgrade and in the consumer sector we've got windows millennium coming on stream. I don't think we are on a different planet, i think the sectors we serve in having the world's faster pc processers allowed us to gain market share and have good margins. Everyone will do well in the pc market if they have a great product and amd has ..... |
