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Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD)
AMD 207.67+2.2%3:59 PM EST

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To: wanna_bmw who wrote (81070)5/30/2002 4:46:13 PM
From: ptannerRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
wbmw, re: How about Sun?

Sun sells about 1M CPUs per year according to this article:

Intel devotes all its attention to
chips, and spreads its costs over 100 million a year, while Sun sells only computers containing
about a million of its Sparc microprocessors annually.
While Intel spent $3.8 billion last year on
R&D, Sun spent about $2 billion, much of it for things other than chips. Intel machines now best
Sun's in raw performance. Says John Parkinson, chief technologist in the U.S. for consultants
Cap Gemini Ernst & Young: "Sun is in worse shape than Oracle because it's so dependent on
hardware. Staying competitive at the silicon level is really hard when you don't have much
volume."

fortune.com

-PT
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