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CNBC 3/4/02 - 7:06 PM... continue the gains over the last two years. Maria: We'll leave it there, dan, nice to have you with us, thank you. >> Thanks, maria. Joining me now to talk more about this new product, and business, is jerry sanders, chairman and ceo of advanced micro devices. Good to have you with us. >> Nice to be here. Maria: You just heard dan niles' comments. First let's talk about the pc business and what he just said was that you and intel, really can't divorce yourselves from the fact that this is a business that's predicated on consumers coming back, buying pcs and it's not hamming yet. What are you seeing? >> Most analysts are prevention. They talk about the u.S. Market, they talk about amd and the consumer space. The realities are, we have more than 20% world market share and we have our highest market share in small and medium business, which is doing pretty well, especially globally. You know, the information and communications technology business is a $2...
CNBC 3/4/02 - 7:09 PM... product, the hammer. How important is it for your business? >> The hammer is absolutely the holy grail for amd. We have been in the microprocessor business for over 25 years, and we're always being told we're catching up with intel. Well, the athlon xp we passed intel, highest performance pc processor in the world. We still don't have the full range rf products to cover the server market and the highest end servers. With hammer, we have an answer to everything. We have a 64-bit processor in the hammer family, that runs 32 bit code faster than anything on the planet. And you get 64 bits for free. So the hammer is what's going to transform amd from a number two to over the next decade, number one, maria. Maria: Number one, harsh words there for your competitor. Let me ask you about pricing. When you come out with new products, surely you have to lower the prices of your old generation products, no? Doesn't that cut in to...
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