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To: PaperChase who wrote (63084)	6/24/1999 2:16:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573027

<"An 800-pound gorilla can sit anywhere they want to. They sat on Cyrix and squashed them and now they are trying to sit on us,'' AMD chairman and chief executive, W.J. (Jerry) Sanders III, told analysts on a conference call. ''Intel is being overly aggressive on prices where we compete.''> Where did you read this? I knew Jerry "They could give their damn Celerons away" Sanders was bitter, but I didn't know he would spout this kind of garbage. This isn't the World Wrestling Federation, you know. <That's how losers talk.> You got that right. Like Elmer said, if the Athlon were owned and manufactured by any other semiconductor company, or even if Jerry Sanders were to be given the boot, Intel could be in serious trouble. Tenchusatsu

To: PaperChase who wrote (63084)	6/24/1999 1:19:00 PM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1573027

Paper, re:<The truth of the matter is that AMD makes a piss poor processor (just like Cyrix) for everything but common business applications.> "common business applications" + internet browsing is 80% of what computers are being used for. <(Try using the floating point capabilities of an AMD processor for DVD software decoding. You can't. And budget PCs need to do software decoding.)> Gimme a break. What % of users watch movies on their PC or have their PC hooked up to a TV? Zero% of business users, maybe 10% of home users on the outside. S3 and ATI make graphics boards with hardware decoding good enough even for a Cyrix and sell for $50-$100. <AMD used an antiquated Socket 7 design for too long and that decision has cost you shareholders money and pain.> What choice did they have? The monopolist Intel refused to license the Slot1 design, so if you were chairman Sanders what would you have done? It certainly would have been suicide to develop a new bus design when you only have 3% of the market. Doing so with 15% of the market is risky enough. (Slot A) AMD could certainly have done better, probably by canning the entire K6-3 development and using the money to push the Aleron earlier and/or spending more money with VIA, Acer Labs and the graphics card makers. Petz