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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 215.65+0.3%3:59 PM EST

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To: SteveC who wrote (58959)10/17/2001 8:12:37 PM
From: TenchusatsuRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
Steve, <Yes, AMD did have the contract and Intel came in with a low ball offer and took it away. Intel won the x-box contract but at the price of a paper thin profit.>

Let's face it. AMD needed that design win more than Intel. The AMD supporters dreamed up all sorts of benefits from the potential design win, such as increased market clout, more software optimization and compiler support for Athlon processors, fabs becoming obsolete less quickly, etc. Then when Intel got the design win, AMD exhibited a clear case of sour grapes.

<On the other hand, it allowed AMD to concentrate its resources on getting the mobile Athlon out and then server chips.>

I guess that's why AMD has kept losses to a "mere" $189M this quarter.

<Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't get.>

I sure don't get it. ;-)

Tenchusatsu
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