SYH, Re: So there is a strong likelihood that they[Intel Sales force] knew there is a line they shouldn't cross, and made an effort to not cross it.>
On the last working day of the year, he opened the top drawer of his desk and drew out a sheaf of thirty or forty letters from customers, each of them confirming a design win. Some of them were products that sounded implausibly eccentric; Handel's favorite was a professor at the University of California at Davis who had designed an electronic brassiere that would use an 8086 chip to monitor the wearer's breast temperature and let her know when the most fertile period of her cycle was approaching. But the letters were all in place, and Handel's total was approaching one hundred different design wins.
"All's fair," he told his disappointed colleague, "in love, war, and sales."
Book, Inside Intel, by Tim Jackson, Chapter, "Crush", last two pages.
One of those books that needs to be re-read every once in a while by all the folks who invest in and against INTC.
You can pick it up for $0.87 plus shipping from Amazon. It might help your investing if you knew the history of the company.
-tgp |
