My point is that if you start it don't claim you did not and that the other guys don't matter and all that BS. Elmer has still not answered my academic question on whether a tiny incremental profit is worth enough to create a hostile ( and uncertain ) marketplace.
Helloo????
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear:
About what, 1998, Intel came to the conclusion that NOBODY wanted the bottom end of the power curve. I have no special knowledge, but Cyrex had been around for a long time.
Then came Emachines and the Incredible IPO Internet Polaroid Land Camera Givaway. The concept being that if you were going to give away a computer to get an eyeball or two, you wanted to give away a 286, not a Zeon.
All of a sudden, in the space of about 8 months, this became a 16 Billion Plus dollar market, my guess, about 10% or more of a 160 Billion dollar market.
Amd was ALREADY THERE, undercutting Intel on the price of processors!!!! And if memory serves, the Celeron and the CeleronA were still MORE expensive than the k6's or whatever AMD was shipping.
If the dotcom mania lasted with the free money, this segment promised to get even larger.
It is a business profit decision, you just happened to be there, that's all.
Elmer has answered you question about 6 times now. This is the seventh. |
